I Want To Hold Your Hand Chords

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I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, D, G, Em, B7, Dm7 and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
Text
16
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Intro 

C C D   
(Oh  yeah ...) 

Verse 
         G             D 
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something 
Em                   B7 
 I think you'll understand 
     G          D 
When I say that something 
Em                 B7 
 I wanna hold your hand 


C        D         G     Em 
 I wanna hold your hand 
C        D         G 
 I wanna hold your hand 

Verse 

   G              D 
Oh please, say to me 
Em                     B7 
 You'll let me be your man 
    G              D 
And please, say to me 
Em                       B7 
 You'll let me hold yout hand 

C           D         G  Em 
 Now let me hold your hand 
C        D         G 
 I wanna hold your hand 


Bridge 

Dm7         G                C       Am 
 And when I touch you I feel happy inside 
Dm7          G               C 
 It's such a feeling that my love 
C C     D      C C     D      C C     D 
I can't hide - I can't hide - I can't hide 


Verse 

      G             D 
Yeah, you, got that something 
Em                    B7 
 I think you'll understand 
     G          D 
When I say that something 
Em                 B7 
 I wanna hold your hand 


C        D         G   Em 
 I wanna hold your hand 
C        D         G 
 I wanna hold your hand 


Bridge 

Dm7         G                C       Am 
 And when I touch you I feel happy inside 
Dm7          G               C 
 It's such a feeling that my love 
C C     D      C C     D      C C     D 
I can't hide - I can't hide - I can't hide 


Verse 

      G            D 
Yeah, you got that something, 
Em                   B7 
 I think you'll understand 
     G           D 
When I feel that something 
Em                 B7 
 I wanna hold your hand 

C        D         G   Em 
 I wanna hold your hand 
C        D         B7 
 I wanna hold your hand 
C        D         C   G 
 I wanna hold your ha--and 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante