Baby Can I Holud You Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays439

Baby Can I Holud You by Tracy Chapman is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A4/7, A7, Em7, G and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
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  			 D                  A4/7            A7
e=====2===2==2=0===2===|0===0===0========
B==T==3===3==3=3===3=0=|3===3=0=2========
G==A==2===2==2=2===2===|0===0===0======== 
D==B==0===0==0=0===0===|2===2===2========
A======================|0===0===0========
E======================|=================

D
Sorry
A4/7          A7         Em7  
It's all that you can't say
 A4/7      A7      D
Years gone by and still
A4/7                Em7
Words don't come easily
       G         A7     A4/7   A7    
Like sorry like sorry
Forgive me
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me forgive me
{c:chorus}
                D
But you can say baby
 Em7            G       D
Baby, can I hold you tonight.  
 Em7         G           Bm
Baby, if I told you the right words,
         A7
By the right time
          D      Em7   G                        
you'd be mine.   
D
I love you
      A4/7    A7        Em7	
It's all that you can't say

A4/7         A7        D
Years don't buy and still
A4/7         A7       Em7
Words don't come easily 
       G           A7
Like I love you I love you
{c: to 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.

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