Only A Fool Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays533

Only A Fool by Skydiggers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G/B, Am, G, F and Ab. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
C      G/B        C         G/B 
Only a fool could be such a friend 
C      G/B        C         G/B 
Only a fool would be such a friend 

verse 1 
C          G/B       Am  G 
Words that once came easily 
C        G/B        Am   G 
Now seem forced and incomplete 
    F                       G 
The end is near and what it seems 

Instrumental 
C   G/B   C   G/B 

verse 2 
C             G/B       Am       G 
The songs you sang they all rang true 
    C         G/B       Am     G 
The world you lived was always blue 
  F                            G        C   G/B 
I can’t believe all we’ve been through 
  F                            G  
I can’t believe all we’ve been through 

Instrumental 
C   G/B   C   G/B 

Bridge 
C      G/B        C     G/B        Am       G 
Only a fool would turn away and pretend 
     F                                                    C 
That all of the love and dreams that we shared would just end 
     F                                                    C 
That all of the love and dreams that we shared would just end 

Instrumental 
C   G/B   C   G/B 

C      G/B        C         G/B 
Only a fool could be such a friend 
C      G/B        C         G/B 
Only a fool would be such a friend 
C      G/B        C         G/B 
Only a fool could be such a friend 
F                Ab    C 
Only a fool like me 
    	

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