Baby Can I Hold You Alt Chords

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Baby Can I Hold You Alt by Tracy Chapman is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords D, Em, F#m, G, A, A7sus, A7 and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
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INTRO 

D | D | Em F#m | G A | 

D            A7sus    A7      Em      A7sus     A7      D        A7sus   A7       Em 
Sorry    Is all that you can say    Years gone by and still    Words don't come easily 

      G           A 
Like sorry    Like sorry 


D                A7sus    A7       Em        A7sus     A7      D        A7sus     A7     Em 
Forgive me    Is all that you can't say    Years gone by and still    Words don't come easily 

       G             A         A7 
Like forgive me   forgive me 



                 D      Em           G          D 
But you can say Baby    Baby can I hold you tonight 

  Em        G            Bm                      A                       D    Em F#m G A 
Maybe if I told you the right words   oh at the right time    you'd be mine 



D                A7sus    A7       Em        A7sus     A7     D         A7sus     A7     Em 
I love you    Is all that you can't say    Years gone by and still    Words don't come easily 

        G            A 
Like I love you    I love you 


Chorus x 2 
    	

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