Sixteen Chords
Sixteen by Orla Gartland is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Am with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords Am, Em, G, D, C, B, Dm, F and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Am Em
And she was no beauty queen
G D
She was in love at just sixteen
C B Am D
with an older boy who hardly knew her name
Am Em
She would think of him and say
G D
You will be mine some day
C B Am D
But her head was filled with things that could've been
G
And she was just sixteen
Am Em
Her head was filled with fairydust and gold
D
She never did what she was told
Am Em
But she knew what she wanted from a very early age
D
Didn't care about a job or give a damn about a wage
Am Em
She just wanted him, and she wanted him for good
D
She would do whatever it took, whatever she could
Am Em
And now she can't stop loving him she never meant to start
D
But what else can you expect from a foolish heart
Am Em
And she was no beauty queen
G D
She was in love at just sixteen
C B Am D
with an older boy who hardly knew her name
Am Em
She would think of him and say
G D
You will be mine some day
C B Am D
But her head was filled with things that could've been
G
And she was just sixteen
Am Em
Age is but a number she would say and she'd believe
D
But four years is way too long to wear your heart on your sleeve
Am Em
And she thought maybe it's time to move on, it's been too long romance is gone,
D
Sung is the song and now this feels all wrong
Am Em
And in a world of advice she feels so small
D
Someone better tell this girl it's probably not love at all
Am Em
And she was no beauty queen
G D
She was in love at just sixteen
C B Am D
with an older boy who hardly knew her name
Am Em
She would think of him and say
G D
You will be mine some day
C B Am D
But her head was filled with things that could've been
G
And she was just sixteen
Dm F C G
Oh no, here she goes again, here she goes again
Dm F
And she got what she wanted when he returned her love
C G
Everything was cosy he fit her like a glove
Dm F
She always dreamt of things she never had though she knew that it was wrong
C G
He blinked and she blinked and suddenly thirty years were gone
Gm
They remembered all the times that she
Am Em
was no beauty queen
G D
She was in love at just sixteen
C B Am D
with an older boy who hardly knew her name
Am Em
She would think of him and say
G D
You will be mine some day
C B Am D
But her head was filled with things that could've been
G
And she was just sixteen