Turn Back The Clock Chords

KeyG Capo5st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays413

Turn Back The Clock by Steam Powered Giraffe is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 5st fret. It uses the chords G, Em, C, D, Am and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
G
Text
16
Speed
  			

 
Capo on 5 


G 
(let ring) 

        Em 
I see a smile 

     C 
It's bright 

     G 
as a dawn's 

         D 
break of light 

               Em 
Is it meant for me? 

     C 
This time 

              G 
Can I keep it close 

           D 
to warm me forever 

Em               G    D 
Time can make the world strange 

Em                  G       D 
Folks you knew don't seem the same 

G 
Time don't care 

  D 
It beats you there 

   Em               Am 
And takes it all from you 

G 
Don't you think 

D 
Even a blink 

  Em               Am 
Is safe from all you knew 

         G 
I see the girl here 

         D 
And she's smilin' 

       Em          C 
Missing two front teeth 

      G        D 
Age is three plus three 

           G 
Well she's a'laughin' 

           D 
Her hair is golden 

          Em 
Her toes a tappin' 

       C     D 
To the robot band (let ring) 

                Em 
I still see her now 

C 
Smiling 

                   G 
Her hair done up in bows 

                   D 
Her brown eyes twinkling 

                   Em 
She hummed a little song 

   C 
For me 

            G 
From a music box 

           D 
Given by Mommy 

Em  D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Am 
Turn back the clock 

(let Am ring) 
For my love song 

G, D, E, C.  
- Instrumental - 

           G 
The autumns roll by 

         D 
a young lady 

          Em 
takes the child's place 

            C 
Pig tailed freckled face 

           G 
And she's a workin' 

      D 
On a'growin' 

         Em 
While the world does change 

          Am        D 
Her smile stays the same 

          Em 
There is a woman 

       C 
with a man 

                 G 
her hair is dyed black 

                             D 
But that smile it still came back 

           Em 
After the curtain 

                   C 
She leaves a little box 

                G 
A tiny dancer spins 

                D 
Music plays from within 

Em  D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Am 
Turn back the clock 

(let Am ring) 
For my love song 

G, D, E, C.  
- Instrumental - 

         G 
A little girl sits 

         D 
And she's laughinâ?? 

         Em 
She looks just like her 

         Am        D 
With her golden curls 

   G 
The smile's there 

             D 
It's not the same smile 

          Em 
Where'd my girl run to 
  
        Am      D 
Will she be back soon? 

         Em 
I see her now 

C 
Smiling 

       G 
Come on back 

  D 
To me 

              Em 
Hum her little song 

              C 
Where did she go? 

             G 
Where did she go? 

             D 
Where did she go? 

     (continuing D) 
Don't leave, Don't leave 

Em  D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Am 
Turn back the clock 

Em  D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Em 
Turn back the clock 

    D         Am 
Turn back the clock 

(quick Am then let ring)      
For my love song 

G 
(let ring) 
    	

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