What Time Is It? Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays362

What Time Is It? by Marshall Crenshaw is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, C, G, Am, Bm, F#m7 and A. 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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16
Speed
  			Intro: D C {x2} 

     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
      D              C 
    What time is it? 
    D                  C 
    I've just got to know 
      D              C 
    What time is it? 
        D              C 
    Three more hours to go 
            G             Am 
    Till I hold her in my arms 
         Bm              Am             G    
    And tell her that I want her for my own 
G 
    Tic-toc, tic-toc 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
      D               C 
    What time is it? 
     D             C 
    Tell me once again 
      D               C 
    What time is it? 
      D                  C 
    Two more hours and then 
          G       Am 
    I'll kiss her lips 
              Bm            Am                  G 
    While the magic of the moonlight makes her mine 
    F#m7                      G 
    Better hurry up and put my tie on 
    F#m7                        G A 
    Better hurry up its almost time 

     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
      D              C 
    What time is it? 
     D             C    
    Just one hour more 
      D              C 
    What time is it? 
     D              C 
    Now I'm at her door 
             G              Am 
    And my heart is beating fast 
         Bm             Am 
    The moments here at last 
          G 
    What time is it? 
         Am        C 
    It's time for love 

     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 

     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
     D        C 
    Tic-toc, listen to the clock 
    	

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