You Can't Talk To The Dude Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays389

You Can't Talk To The Dude by Jonathan Richman is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, C, D, G, Bm, F#m, E and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
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16
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verse 1 

Em                           C 
You wonder why you're feeling blue 
       Em                                  C 
And you live with a guy that you can't talk to 

You can't talk to the dude 
             D 
And that's no longer in style 
         C 
You can't talk to the dude 
       D 
No this "No es normal." 
         C 
You can't talk to the dude 
          D 
And things will never be right 
         G 
Until you go 


verse 2 

Em                            C 
Your sense of humor has gotten worse 
            Em                        C 
Now that you live with a guy who can't converse 

You can't talk to the dude 
         D 
Well he's set in his way 
     C 
Got a bad attitude 
        D 
When you say what you say 
         C 
You can't talk to the dude 
               D 
And things will never be right 
         G 
Until you go 


Hook 2x 

Bm           Em                   Bm 
Oh, you can't talk to the dude, no, no 
         Em                   C 
You can't talk to the dude, no, no 

You can't talk to the dude 
               D 
And things will never be right 
         G 
Until you go 


verse 3 

F#m                          D 
You wonder why you're feeling rank 
       F#m                          D 
And you live with a guy who's in the tank 

You can't talk to the dude 
         E 
He's just hanging around 
           D 
No he don't taste the food 
         E 
He's just shoveling it down 
         D 
You can't talk to the dude 
               E 
And things will never be right 
         A 
Until you go 


Hook 


Outro 

              D 
Well you can't talk to the dude 
               E 
And things will never be right 
         A   D  A 
Until you go, go go 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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