Melancholy Melody Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays596

Melancholy Melody by Kate Mcgill is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D/F#, Em7 and C9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G                                                             D/F# 
you didn't want me in your life and that's fine, but you had love, why did 
         G 
you take mine. you didn't want to waste a fraction more of your time, on my 
         D/F#   G 
endless reason and rhyme 

    Em7       D/F#    C9                                   Em7 D/F#    G 
but you're the only person that I can stand to talk to for longer than this 
            D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#  G 
please stop playin that melancholy melody on my heart strings cuz I've been 
D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#         G 
playin that melancholy melody on my heart and it sings 
G  D/F# C9  
Oh Ohh Ohh Ohh 
G  D/F# G 
Oh Ohh Ohh Oh 

G 
you're a little messed up in the way you're thinking, it's getting worse  
      D/F#             G 
every time your blinker is blinking, remember when I told you about our boat 
                                  D/F#     G 
sinking, well, I think you're the only one left 

    Em7       D/F#    C9                                   Em7 D/F#    G 
but you're the only person that I can stand to talk to for longer than this 
            D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#  G 
please stop playin that melancholy melody on my heart strings cuz I've been 
D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#         G 
playin that melancholy melody on my heart and it sings 
G  D/F# C9  
Oh Ohh Ohh Ohh 
G  D/F# G 
Oh Ohh Ohh Oh 

    Em7       D/F#    C9                                   Em7 D/F#    G 
but you're the only person that I can stand to talk to for longer than this 
            D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#  G 
please stop playin that melancholy melody on my heart strings cuz I've been 
D/F#        Em7        C9        G  D/F#         G 
playin that melancholy melody on my heart and it sings 
G  D/F# C9  
Oh Ohh Ohh Ohh 
G  D/F# G 
Oh Ohh Ohh Oh 
G  D/F# C9  
Oh Ohh Ohh Ohh 
G  D/F# G 
Oh Ohh Ohh Oh 
    	

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