Slow (acoustic) Chords

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Slow (acoustic) by The Fratellis is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro: G  C  G  C 

G                         C              D                    Em        C 
If I had an audience I'd cover my face, lock away myself in a lonesome place 
G                           C 
If I'd had a premonition of how this would be 
D                                       Em       C 
I would still have begged and took you home with me 
D                             Em        C 
Still have done it all, done it hopelessly         
G                           D 
And bury myself when all I could see 
        Em                    C 
Well I lost my heart when my back was turned 
        G                       C 
If you see it could you let me know? 
    G                           D                     Em   C 
And if you've got to leave me, baby, won't you do it slow? 

G                       C                             D                            Em        C 
If I had a crystal ball I still wouldn't see it all I swear I didn't do it just to make you crawl 
G                        C                     D                          Em         C 
And if I had a audience I'd ask them to leave, how can I give them what I can't recieve? 
D                     Em          C 
How can I pray when I just don't believe? 
G                           D 
And sometimes it takes, all your heart just to breathe 
       Em                      C                      G                      C 
Well I lost my heart when my back was turned, if you see it could you let me know 
    G                           D                     Em   C 
And if you've got to leave me, baby, won't you do it slow? 
        G                   C                         G                       C 
There's nothing I wouldn't give in this old world, to be the man you met long ago 
         G                      D                     Em        C 
And if you've got to leave me, baby, won't you do it slow? 
         G                      D                     Em        C 
And if you've got to leave me, baby, won't you do it slow? 

Piano solo  G C G C 

D                                  Em    C      D                      Em      C 
Oh don't let me see, don't linger at my door, tell me again was it to you I swore 
      G                            D 
That no one would play with your heart anymore? 
        Em                    C                 G                            C 
Well I lost my heart when my back was turned If you see it could you let me know? 
G                                D               Em     C 
If you've got to leave me, baby, won't you do it slow? 
     G                       C                       G                      C 
There's nothing I wouldn't give in this whole world, to be the man you met long ago 
G                          D                    Em      C 
If you've got to leave me baby Won't you do it slow? 
G                          D                    Em      C 
If you've got to leave me baby Won't you do it slow? 
    	

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