You Got Me Singin Chords

KeyD# Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays573

You Got Me Singin by Leonard Cohen is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords D, G, A and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D#
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 D                  G                        D 
1. You got me singing even tho’ the news is bad, 
                                               A 
    you got me singing the only song I ever had. 
                         D                 G 
    You got me singing ever since the river died, 
                         D                     A                       D 
    you got me thinking of the places we could hide. 
  
                   Bm                     m      A                         G  
You got me singing even though the world is gone, 
                         D                            A 
you got me thinking I’d like to        carry on. 
                     Bm                        A                     G 
You got me singing even tho’ it all looks grim, 
                    G                 A              D 
you got me singing the Hallelujah hymn. 
  
+  D - G - D     - D - A      - D - G      - D - A - D 
  
                         D                    G                D 
2. You got me singing like a prisoner in a jail, 
                                                 A 
    you got me singing like my pardon’s in the mail. 
                         D               G  
    You got me wishing our little love would last, 
                         D                           A                   D 
    you got me thinking like those people of the past. 
  
                   Bm                    A                          G   
You got me singing even though the world is gone, 
                     D              A 
you got me thinking I’d like to  carry on. 
                    Bm                A                       G 
You got me singing even tho’ it all went wrong, 
                    G                 A              D 
you got me singing the Hallelujah song. 
  
+  D - G - D     - D - A      - D - G     - D - A - D 
   
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante