The Snowman Chords

KeyAb CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays528

The Snowman by Paul Heaton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Ab. It uses the chords Ab, C, G, F, Am, Am7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Chords and tab all relevant to CAPO AT FRET 8 (key of Ab)  
 
Intro  
e|- - - -0 - - -  - - 0- 1-0-1 -2 - 3- - - 3- -1 -0 - 1- 1- - - 3-1 - 0- - -|  
B|- - 1- - -1 - -  -  1 - - - - - - 0- - - 0- - - - - - - - - - - - - 1- -  |  
G|- - - - - - - 0- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  |  

C                                   G  
Snowman doesn’t really melt he just slowly falls apart  
    F                   G       C  
Cos no one built a snow girl to heal his broken heart  
   G                                  F  
We walk through life like snowmen and gradually we melt  
    C N.C.  
Cos no one seems to understand the feelings that we felt  
             C                  G  
Our love somehow in this winter rain  
                  F     G                  C  
Left just hat and scarf beneath the window pane  
Am                   Ab      Am7     
Spring pops his head out from underneath the sheets  
        Am               Ab      C  
And the cold and dark of winter begins its long retreat  
Am                         Ab    Am7         D7      
Blossom brightly doffs his hat at everyone he greets  
        F  N.C.                             C  
And the love you showed for me has come and gone  
C                                      G  
We’re Guy Fawkes dummy roaming town we beg for 50p  
F                       G              C  
Hold our freezing hands out thinking I wish this wasn’t me  
G                             F  
Carrot for a nose ain’t bad a piece of coal for eyes  
  C  N.C.  
A bunch of twigs for lovin’ arms where nothing can disguise  
              C                G  
This night is done I’m burning bright  
                       F     G        C  
I’m off with snowman’s heart into the night   
Am               Ab                Am7            
Winter drops its silent leaves like bombs upon our sun  
       Am               Ab                     C  
Like a swarm of bees we embrace the breeze with nowhere left to run  
        Am            Ab                     Am7              D7   
And the fly begins to yearn the warmth of the web the spider’s spun  
        F                                   C  
And the love you showed for me has come and gone   
C                         G  
In hat and scruffy jacket strangers pass me by  
F                  G             C  
Confident November here and it’s time for us to die  


Thanks to Malcolm Ion for requesting this song.   
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Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante