Southern Skies Chords

KeyA# Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays395

Southern Skies by Luke Olson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A# with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, D, E, G, C, F and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A#
Text
16
Speed
  			Standard tune 
 
 
 
Intro: X2 A D A E 
 
A                                     D 
Singing songs and picking on the guitar 
          A                           E 
Under the moon glow, and the southern stars 
A                                      D 
Staring in the fire at the warm yellow flames 
A                                        E 
debating how, how I wanna spend the next day 
A                                   D 
maybe I'll drive farther out in the country 
A                                     E 
well I should, cause thats where I wanna be 
 
 
D        A              E                  G 
And i am always driving under the southern skys 
D               A             E            G     D 
if your looking for me I'll be here until I die 
 
A D A E 
 
A                                          D 
The morning comes and it brings a cloudless day 
A                             E 
I pack my things and I'm on my way 
A                                           D 
to the hill country so I can spend the afternoon 
A                                       E  
Im leaving south texas, but I'll be back soon 
 
 
Repeat Chorus: 
 
Break C G F C G F Am E D 
 
Repeat Chorus: X2  end on A  
    	

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