Right About Now Chords

KeyG Capo2st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays328

Right About Now by Melanie Safka is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords G, D, Em, C 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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nd Fret 
  
  
G                     D 
Love is both high and low 
Em                     D              C 
On one level, it's the feel of it all 
                   D                           C 
On the other, it's dreams and it's truth, yeah 
                   D                           G 
On the other, it's clean and it's blue, but... 
  
  
                D                          Em 
Tonight I'm not thinking of higher things 
                               Bm              C 
I'm thinking about the boy who just walked in 
                     D           C 
How I'd like to feel good again 
                       D 
When I'm far away from you 
  
  

                    Em  D           G 
So, tell me what to do, right about now 
                 Em   D           G 
I'm in love with you, right about now 
                  C                 D 
I've been away so long, feeling so alone 
                C                   D    G 
Tell me what to do, tell me what to do 
                  Em               G 
Sha la, sha la la laa la la, yeah 
           Em 
Oh whoa, yeah 
            G 
Right about now 
                  Em               G 
Sha la, sha la la laa la la, yeah 
           Em    G 
Oh whoa, whoa 
  
  
                D 
Darling help me to be strong 
    Em                        D                         C 
I'm not the kind of woman who normally carries on, but 
                  D      C 
I've been away so long 
                    D         G 
Without the love of you, and  
  
  
          D                Em 
I meet so much in the way 
                     Bm                 C 
Of resistance and hostility everywhere 
                    D           C 
You know I need someone to care 
                         D 
When I'm up there, in my room 
  
  

                    Em  D           G 
So, tell me what to do, right about now 
                 Em   D           G 
I'm in love with you, right about now 
                  C                 D 
I've been away so long, feeling so alone 
                C                   D    G 
Tell me what to do, tell me what to do 
                  Em               G 
Sha la, sha la la laa la la, yeah 
           Em   G 
Oh whoa, yeah 
                  Em               G 
Sha la, sha la la laa la la, yeah 
           Em    G 
Oh whoa, whoa 
  
  
Instrumental:

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante