Can You Tell Me Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays428

Can You Tell Me by Porter Wagoner is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C 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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G       C                              G 
Can you tell me when the rains will be ending 

        D7                                G 
Can you tell me when the clouds will blow away 

          C                            G 
Could you tell me when my love will be returning 

   D7                               G 
Or do you think my love has gone to stay 

  
                                    D7 
Once my days were filled with happy sunshine 

                                          G 
At night we'd watch the stars come out to play 

    C                                 G 
But now the clouds have covered up my rainbows 

D7                            G 
Since the one I love has gone away 

  
G       C                              G 
Can you tell me when the rains will be ending 

        D7                                G 
Can you tell me when the clouds will blow away 

          C                            G 
Could you tell me when my love will be returning 

   D7                               G 
Or do you think my love has gone to stay 


                                        D7 
Since she left my world's been dark and lonely 

                                           G 
Sometimes it's hard to tell the night from day 

         C                          G 
Lord I'd give a part of my share in heaven 

D7                                      G 
Just to see the one I love come home to stay 

  
G       C                              G 
Can you tell me when the rains will be ending 

        D7                                G 
Can you tell me when the clouds will blow away 

          C                            G 
Could you tell me when my love will be returning 

   D7                               G 
Or do you think my love has gone to stay 


   D7                                 G 
Oh tell me that my love's not gone to stay 
    	

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