Tell Me How Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays582

Tell Me How by The Crickets is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, E, E7, D and F#m. 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 E (2x) 

Verse 1:
 
A              E7 
Tell me how to keep your love. 
A              E7 
You know how I need your love. 
A               D        E7 
Tell me how you keep the love 
    A       E7         A  E7 
within your heart from me. 

Verse 2:
 
A              E7 
Don't you know that I love you. 
A               E7 
Let me show why I'm true blue 
A               D       E7 
When I know our love is true 
      A         E7        A  E7 
Don't keep your love from me. 


   F#m 
If you would say to me, today, 
    E 
the time for love is now. 
F#m 
Could I sway your love my way? 
     D             E7 
Then I say tell me how. 



Verse 3: 
A              E7 
Tell me how to keep your love. 
A              E7 
You know how I need your love. 
A               D        E7 
Tell me how you keep the love 
    A       E7         A  E7 
within your heart from me. 


Interlude : A E A E A  A E A E (2x) 


   F#m 
If you would say to me, today, 
    E 
the time for love is now. 
F#m 
Could I sway your love my way? 
     D             E7 
Then I say tell me how. 



Verse:
 
A              E7 
Tell me how to keep your love. 
A              E7 
You know how I need your love. 
A               D        E7 
Tell me how you keep the love 
    A       E7         A  E7 
within your heart from me. 

OUTRO:
 
A               D        E7 
Tell me how you keep the love 
    A       E7         A  E7 
within your heart from me. 

D A E A E A 

 
    	

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