Skies Are Turnin' Red Chords

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Skies Are Turnin' Red by Mike McClure is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G 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            
Something's coming in the distance baby 
      G                       D 
I can hear it comin' down the line 
  D 
I know you've told me a thousand baby 
     G                   D 
Come on tell me one more time 
D 
Tell me everything will be all right 
G                       D 
Tell me I'm sick in the head 
D 
Something's coming in the distance baby 
          G                 D  
Cause the skies are turning red 
          G                 D 
Yeah, the skies are turning red 
 
 
Sometimes you got a heart of steel 
Sometiems I think I wanna watch you bend 
Just to see if you're still standing 
When everything comes to an end 
I've seen people turn their back on you 
And walked while you stood there and bled(?) 
Something's coming in the distance baby 
And the skies are turning red 
Yeah, the skies are turning red 
 
A         G                 D 
Something tells me it ain't gonna be like you thought it?d be 
A         G               D 
You can't think that far ahead, ahead of me 
A      G               D  
If you want to you can look for me, cause I'll be runnin' free 
A    G                  D             A 
Underneath the skies of red, come and run with me 
 
 
Someday I'm gonna get it straight 
Or somebody's gonna straighten me out 
Either come from the Heavens above 
Or somewhere in the shadow of a doubt 
Either way something's goin' down 
The sun's goin' over your head 
Somethin's comin' in the distance baby 
Cause the skies are turning red 
Yeah, the skies are turning red 
 
Chorus 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante