What Am I Doing Here Chords

KeyDm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays528

What Am I Doing Here by The Moody Blues is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, G, F, A, Bb and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Dm
Text
16
Speed
  			(verse 1) 

Dm                        G 
Pale the young squire who goes to fight 
Dm                     G 
To die at his master's side 
Dm               G 
Living is just a dream inside 
Dm                G 
You ask me why he cried 

(bridge) 
F                G 
"What am I doin' here?" 
F                G 
"What am I doin' here?" 

(verse 2) 
Dm                  G 
Beautiful princess, fair and pale 
Dm                   G 
Stares out across the sea 
Dm                  G 
Alone in her castle dark and grey 
Dm                    G 
Her love she'll never see 

(bridge) 
F                G 
"What am I doin' here?" 
F                G        A 
"What am I doin' here?" 

 
         Dm                  A 
Tenderly bury the fair young dead 
       Dm                  A 
Place a wooden cross at his head 
        Bb 
All the words you can say 
          C 
Have been said 
         Bb     A         Dm 
It's for you my tears are shed 
    	

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