Mexican Guitars Chords

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Mexican Guitars by The Menzingers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, Bm and F#m. 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: D, A, D, A, G 

Verse One: 
            D    A    G 
You were an old      friend 
     Bm            G 
The kind I could confide in 
     D    A   G        Bm                 G 
And drink    with on random neighbour's porch steps 
      Bm                 G                A       G 
Our glossy eyes painted portraits of the streets 


Repeat Intro 


Verse Two: 
            D    A   G 
You were an old    friend 
      Bm              G 
That covered up your innocence 
      D   A   G                   Bm                  G 
With five     tattoos of all the bands you loved in high school 
     Bm                  G             A     G 
The ones you said that I had to listen to     all the time 


Verse Three: 
D                        G         D 
I did what I did to get away from this 
        Bm                 G              D 
Cause everything that's happened has left me a total wreck 
           D                     G       D 
And everything that I do now is meaningless  
        Bm              G           D 
So I'm off to wander around the world for a little bit 
            F#m                                  G 
Without one hundred channels with nothing on the TV 
           F#m              G     A 
And the great pessimistic unknown 

                Bm 
I'm on cruise control and the radio was on 
           G               
Yeah, they were playing that song 
                              Bm 
That we both learned on our Mexican guitars 
          G                     Bm 
I'm on cruise control and the radio was on 
           G  
They were playing that song 
                                     Bm 
That we both learned on our Mexican guitars 
         G                       Bm 
On our Mexican guitars, on our Mexican guitars 
         G                       Bm 
On our Mexican guitars, on our Mexican guitars 
             G    F#m 
You were my old friend 
    	

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