Acapulco Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays433

Acapulco by Johnny Duncan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C 
It's raining on the west coast snowing in Topeka 

                                           G7 
The weatherman says there's ice below Tennessee 

          F                G7           C                   F 
There's a flood out in California and a drought way down in Texas 

       C                  G7                   C 
And in Maine the fog's so thick that you can't see 


                                F 
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco 

           G7               C 
There's no snow in Old Monterey 

                         F 
There's no ice down in Nogales 

         G7                             C 
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way 

  

I see a loser in my mirror got a devil in my brain 

                                         G7 
And the woman I've been loving she moved on 

         F              G7                C            F 
She left lonesome in my bedroom and dirty dishes in my sink 

          C               G7                  C 
Guess she didn't like the words to my country song 


                                F 
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco 

           G7               C 
There's no snow in Old Monterey 

                         F 
There's no ice down in Nogales 

         G7                             C 
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way 



I’ll mail a check for my kids to Joanie buy a backpack and a hat 
  
                                              G7 
Get a map that shows all the highways heading south 

      F             G7               C              F 
I got no friends to call there ain’t nobody left at all 

    C               G7              C 
I’m gonna be up and in not down and out 

  
                                 F 
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco 

           G7               C 
There's no snow in Old Monterey 

                         F 
There's no ice down in Nogales 

         G7                             C 
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way 


                                F 
But the sun shines bright in Acapulco 

           G7               C 
There's no snow in Old Monterey 

                         F 
There's no ice down in Nogales 

         G7                             C 
I say oh Lord there's gotta be a better way 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante