Half A Person Chords

KeyBm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays857

Half A Person by The Smiths is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Bm. It uses the chords Bm, E, A, G, Esus4, Gb, C and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Bm
Text
16
Speed
  			RIFF 1
|---5-4-------------------------|
|--5----5-----------------------|
|-4-----------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

Bm                       E RIFF1    Bm                           E  RIFF1
Call me morbid, call me pale.       I've spent six years on your trail

Bm  A    G                E Esus4 E
six long years on your trail.

Bm                      E RIFF 1     Bm                          E RIFF 1
Call me morbid, call me pale.       I've spent six years on your trail

Bm       A           G              E Esus4 E
six full years of my life on your trail.

           Gb                   G(bar) C(bar) G       Gb                      G(bar)
And if you have five seconds to spare,     then I'll tell you the story of my life.

D                  A     Gb                   Bm  G
Sixteen clumsy and shy, I went to London and I

D                         A    Gb
I booked myself in at the Y   W    C   A

           A                 E RIFF 1           A                 E RIFF 1
I said "i like it here, can I stay?",      "i like it here, can I stay?",

Bm             A     G             E Esus4 E
Do you have a vacancy for a back scrubber?
    	

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