Best Years Of Our Lives Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays609

Best Years Of Our Lives by Richard Clapton is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, Amaj9, C#m7, Bm7, D/A, D, F#m7, E and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
Speed
  			:intro 
A       Amaj9   C#m7    Bm7     Bm7     A,       Amaj9   C#m7    Bm7     
Bm7     D/A     D/A 
 
A               D       A            Bm7 
Oh Michael all the lines are down it's Australia day weekend, 
D               A               F#m7     
Every time the wheel slows down I think of all my friends, 
D                       A                       
F#m7                       D     
what every happened to the days way back when the Bondi Life Saver was 
always ragin' 
                A                       F#m7            D               
D       E 
Standing here in Oxford street and the ghosts are howling and geeze it's 
raining 
 
:chorus 
        A       Amaj9           C#m7                    Bm       
I say don't waste time,                 these are the best years of our 
lives 
        A       Amaj9           C#m7                    Bm      Bm 
I said don't waste time,                these are the best years of our 
lives 
D               D 
oh no!, 

    	

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