You Can Never Hold Back Spring Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays556

You Can Never Hold Back Spring by Tom Waits is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, Bb, F#, Bm, G, D7, Em, Am7 and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			(intro) D    A    A Bb    D F# 

  D                      A     A Bb        Bm            G 
You   can never hold back spring 
                   D               A 
You can be sure   I will never 
                    Bm            G 
Stop believing 
G                                                        D              D7 
        The blushing rose they will climb 
G                                                D 
        Spring ahead or fall behind 
                 G 
Winter dreams the same dream 
           Em 
Every time 

           D                         A    A Bb       D F# 
Baby you    can never hold   back    spring 
            Am7                     D7              G 
Even though         you've lost your way 
                            Em                                   F# 
The world is dreaming         dream of spring 

Bm                    F#m 
      So close your eyes 
Bm               F#m 
      Open your heart 
       G                                         A 
To one      who's dreaming of you 

           D                       A     A Bb           Bm       G 
Baby You   can never hold   back    spring 
                         D                        A 
Remember everything   that spring 
              Bm 
Can bring 
            D                        A    A Bb         Bm       G 
Baby you     can never hold  back    spring 
           D                           A     A Bb          D F# 
Baby you     can never hold     back    spring 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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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