Ask Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays536

Ask by The Smiths is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, Am, 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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  			G   Am     C   D 
Shyness is nice and 
G   Am      C   D 
Shyness can stop you 
     G     Am      C         D 
From doing all the things in life 
            G   Am   C   D 
You'd like to 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
Shyness is nice and 
Shyness can stop you 
From doing all the things in life 
You'd like to 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
So, if there's something you'd like to try 
If there's something you'd like to try 
Ask me I wont say no, how could I? 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
Coyness is nice, and 
Coyness can stop you 
From saying all the things in 
Life you'd like to 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
So, if there's something you'd like to try 
If there's something you'd like to try 
Ask me I wont say no, how could I? 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
Spending warm Summer days indoors 
Writing frightening verse 
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg 
 
G       G       G            C 
Ask me, ask me, ask me 
G       G       G 
Ask me, ask me, ask me 
 
        G     Am    C    D 
Because if it's not Love 
              G      Am       C 
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, 
   D        G        Am       C 
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb 
          D              Em   D   C       Em   D   C 
That will bring us together 
 
G      Am    C     D   G   Am  C  D 
Nature is a language - can't you read ? 
Nature is a language - can't you read ? 
 
    G       G       G           C 
So, ask me, ask me, ask me, 
G       G       G 
Ask me, ask me, ask me 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
Because if it's not Love 
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, 
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb 
That will bring us together 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
If it's not Love 
Then it's the bomb 
Then it's the bomb 
That will bring us together 
     
    G       G       G          C 
So, ask me, ask me, ask me, 
G       G       G 
Ask me, ask me, ask me 
 
(G Am C D rythmn) 
Oh, la... 
 
G Am C D until fade out. 
 
Easy! 
 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante