Ballroom Dancing Chords

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Ballroom Dancing by Paul McCartney is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B7, E7, Ab7, A7, C7 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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  			        B7 
Well, I used to smile when I was a pup, 
        B7 
sailing down the Nile in a china cup 
         E7 
with the recipe for a lovely day, 
         B7 
sticking out of my back pocket. 

        E7 
But it wasn’t always such a pretty sight, 
                      Ab7 
we used to fight like cats and dogs 
        E7                B7 
till we made it up in the ballroom. 

 B7              E7 
Ballroom dancing made a man of me. 
B7                     E7 
One, two, three, four, I just plain adore you. 
 B7                E7 
Ballroom dancing, seen it on T.V. 
B7                             E7       A7   B7 
I got what I got from ballroom dancing big B.D. 

Well, I used to fly when I was a kid 
and I didn’t cry if it hurt a bit. 
On a carpet ride to foreign land 
at the time of Davy Crokett. 

But it wasn’t always such a pretty sight, 
‘cause we used to fight like cats and dogs 
till we made it up in the ballroom. 

Ballroom dancing made a man of me. 
One, two, three, four, I just plain adore you. 
Ballroom dancing, seen it on T.V. 
I got quite a lot from ballroom dancing big B.D. 

Inter:B7  E7 x3  B7  C7  D7  B7 
      B7  E7  B7 x4  B7  E7  B7  E7  B7 

Well, the kids have flown to a better life. 
Now the boy’s a man and the girl’s his wife. 
And the summertime never seems to last 
when you’re riding on a rocket. 

But it wasn’t always such a pretty sight, 
we used to fight like cats and dogs 
till we made it up in the ballroom. 

Ballroom dancing made a man of me. 
One and a two and a three and four, I just plain adore you. 
Ballroom dancing, seen it on T.V. 
I got quite a lot from ballroom dancing big B.D. 
C7  D7   B7 
Oh, oh. 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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

100 BPM Andante