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Inner City Blues Chords

by Sixto Rodriguez
KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays457

Inner City Blues by Sixto Rodriguez is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords E, Em, A and B5. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em
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16
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Intro: 
E, Em, A Etc. 


Verse: 
E                                          A 
Going down a dirty inner city side road, I plotted 
E                                       A 
Madness passed me by, she smiled hi, I nodded 
E                              B5          E 
Looked up as the sky began to cry, she shot it 
E                           A                                   E 
Meet a girl from Dearborn, early six o-clock this morn, a cold fact 
A                                                       E 
Asked about her bag, suburbia's such a drag, wont go back 


Chorus:

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante