Ordinary Boys Chords

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Ordinary Boys by Morrissey is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Bb, C, Em and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G        D     Bb            C       G 
Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing 
            D              Bb     C 
Happy being no-one but themselves 
G        D      Bb          C 
Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes 
    G               D                     Bb  C 
Who think it's very clever to be cruel to you 
Em               D 
For you were so different 
Em             D 
You stood all alone 
        F 
And you knew 
        C            D 
That it had to be so 
         G        D 
Avoiding ordinary boys 
Bb            C           G 
Happy going nowhere, just around here 
         D            Bb  C 
In their rattling cars 
G        D 
Ordinary girls 
Bb            C 
Never seeing further 
          G          D 
Than the cold, small streets 
               Bb  C 
That trap them 
    Em              D 
But you were so different 
    Em           D 
You had to say no 
            F 
When those empty fools 
         C               D 
Tried to change you, and claim you 
         G             D             Bb 
For the lair of their ordinary world 
           C       G 
Where they feel so lucky 
   D         Bb    C 
So lucky, so lucky 
           G                D 
With their lives laid out before them 
         Bb 
They are lucky 
   C         G 
So lucky, so lucky 
   D         Bb  C 
So lucky, so 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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

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