Blue Skies Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays375

Blue Skies by Louis Amstrong is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, B7, Em7, A7, C#m5-/7, G, C9, D7, G6, Cm, C, D, Gdim and Dm4/7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: Em B7 Em7 A7 C#m5-/7 G Em7 C9  D7  G B7 

       Em        B7      Em7 A7     
Blue skies   smiling at me 
C#m5-/7  G Em7 C9 D7  GB7 
             Em        B7      Em7 A7     
Nothin g but blue skies     do I see 
Em         B+          Em7   A7 
Bluebirds    singin' a song 
C#m5-/7       G    Em7   C9   D7       G              
Nothing but blue birds      all day long 

Bridge 
   G           G6  Cm          G  
Never saw the sun shining so bright 
C          G     D         G 
Never saw things going so right 
   G         G6    Cm      G  
Noticing the days hurrying by 
   C            G        B7            Em  B7 
When you're in love, my, my, how they fly 
Em         B7              Em7     A7 
Blue days,    all of them gone  
C#m5-/7      G          C9  D7       G  Gdim Dm4/7 G 
Nothing but blue skies    from now on 
    	

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