Your Cheatin' Heart Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays337

Your Cheatin' Heart by Louis Amstrong is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, F, D7 and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			
  G             C                   F                                  
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep 
                     G                         C 
You'll cry and cry and try to sleep 
   C                                   F                                                
But sleep won't come the whole night through 
                     G                 C 
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you 
                  F                 C                                           
When tears come down like fallin' rain 
                     D7               G7 
You'll toss around and call my name 
                  C              F                                     
You'll walk the floor the way I do 
                       G                 C 
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you 
  G             C                   F                                  
Your cheatin' heart will pine some day 
                      G                         C 
You'll crave the love you threw away 
   C                                   F                                                
The time will come when you'll be blue 
                      G                 C 
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you 
                  F                 C                                           
When tears come down like fallin' rain 
                       D7               G7 
You'll toss around and call my name 
                  C              F                                     
You'll walk the floor the way I do 
                      G                 C 
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you 
  C              G                 C   F   C 
 Your cheatin' heart will tell on you 
    	

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