The Shakes Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays551

The Shakes by The Menzingers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, E, F#5 and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			The Shakes is an original Menzingers track, coming from the Electric Split, an EP/7" featuring The Bouncing  
Souls and The Menzingers, released in 2013.  

Intro: A, D, A, E (x4) 



A 
I've got the shakes, baby 
F#5 
The shakes 
D                     E 
What do you say about me and you 
F#5                D 
Buy some booze for breakfast soon? 
A 
I've got the shakes, baby 
F#5 
The shakes 
D                     E 
What do you say about me and you 
F#5                D 
Buy some booze for breakfast soon? 
E 
Soon! 


verse 1: 
A 
'Cause I've made my mistakes 
F#5 
And I've said my laments 
D                  E              (A) 
And now my girl is moving all her things 
F#5        (D) 
Out of the apartment 


verse 2: 
A 
And I got high with you one time 
F#5 
And then we talked it over 
D              F#5 
We said living takes too long 
                           (D) 
And we ain't ever getting sober 


A 
I've got the shakes, baby 
F#5 
The shakes 
D                     E 
What do you say about me and you 
F#5                D 
Buy some booze for breakfast soon? 
A 
I got the shakes baby,  
F#5 
And they wont go away 
D                     E 
What do you say about me and you 
F#5                    D 
We'd waste away in the afternoon? 


Solo Chords: A, F#5, A, F#5, D, B, A 


Bridge: 
D                    A 
'Cause if there is a God 
E                         F#5 
There is no more fun to be had 
D 
And if there was 
E                               A 
A way that I could get you back! 
D                      A 
'Cause all the boys in town 
E              F#5 
They would all agree 
D                    E 
That if you're going down 

You're going down with me! 


A 
I've got the shakes, baby 
F#5 
And they won't go away 
D                     E 
What do you say about me and you 
F#5                D 
Buy some booze for breakfast soon? 
F#5                    D 
We'd waste away in the afternoon! 
F#5 
'Cause who are we kidding? 
   E              A 
We both ain't got nothing better to do 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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