Joy To You Baby Chords

KeyF CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays381

Joy To You Baby by Josh Ritter is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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F
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Intro riff: 
    F                         Bb 
e|--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1---1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1-| 
B|--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1--1-1---1-3--1-3--1-3--1-3--1-3-| 
G|--0-2--0-2--0-2--0-2--0-2---3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-| 
D|--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3---3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3-| x2 
A|--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3--3-3---------------------------| 
E|----------------------------------------------------| 



Verse 1 chords: chords may be played similar to intro riff
 
F                    Bb 
I go to the parties, throw my hands in the air 
F                        Bb 
I drink what they pour me, the cups of who cares 
F                      Bb 
Go up in the night sky, up in the clouds 
F                   Bb 
Fly over the houses, I'm looking down 



F               Bb 
Joy to the city, joy to the streets 
F                    Bb 
And joy to you baby, wherever you sleep 
F                 Bb 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 
F                 Bb 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 



Interlude: play intro riff (2x) 


Verse 2: use verse 1 chords 

There's no ghosts in the graveyard, that's not where they live 
They float in between us,'what is' and 'what if' 
And cast our own shadows, before our own eyes 
You don't get them up here though, they don't come up high 



Joy to the city, the parking lot lights 
The lion of evening, with the rain in its eyes 
Joy to the freeway, joy to the cars 
And joy to you baby, wherever you are 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 


Interlude: play intro riff (4x) 


Verse 3: use verse 1 chords 

There's pain in whatever, we stumble upon 
If I never had met you, you couldn't have gone 
But then I couldn't have met you, we couldn't have been 
I guess it all adds up, to joy to the end 


Chorus 3: use chorus 1 chords
 
Joy to the city, the heatwave and all 
To the lion of evening, with the storm in its paw 
Joy to the many, and joy to the few 
And joy to you baby, joy to me too 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 
Tonight, tonight, tonight 
Tonight, tonight, tonight  
    	

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).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante