Blow, Wind, Blow Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays555

Blow, Wind, Blow by Tom Waits is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, Am, Dm and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Em
Text
16
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       Em  
Blow, wind, blow wherever you may go.  
            Am  
Put on your overcoat,   
        Dm                        Em  
Take me away.   Got to take me on into the night,(2)  
Am  
Blow me away.(2)  

Em  
Mary's on the blacktop,  
There's a husband in the doghouse.  
        Am  
In the middle of a shakedown  
         Em  
She got quiet as a church mouse,  
  
She found Raleighs on the dashboard,  
  
Sugar daddy caught a polo car.  
          Am       Bm               Em  
Ain't no solitary tap dance way down here.  

Em  
I swear I's ridin on a fieldmouse. 

We were dancing in the slaughterhouse.  
       Am  
If you skip along the beltway  
         Em  
Then you skid along the all day,  
  
'Cause I went a little crazy  
  
And I sat on my highchair,  
        Am            Bm             Em  
And I'm smokin' like a diesel way out here. 

  
(Chorus)  


    	

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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante