Chattanooga Choo Choo Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays512

Chattanooga Choo Choo by Vaughn Monroe is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, Gdim, Fdim, A7, G/B, G, D6, B7, E7, Bm5-/7, D7M, D7, C, Em7, Am7, C/B, G/F#, G7, Dm7, C7, F, Fm and Bb9. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D  Gdim Fdim       D      A7      G/B    A7     G    D  
Pardon me,    boy, is that the Chattanooga choo choo 
D6    D     B7 E7    Bm5-/7  E7    
Track twenty    nine    
    Bm5-/7    E7     A7  D     G D  
Boy, you can give me a shine 
D Gdim Fdim       D       A7      G/B   A7     G    D  
I  can afford to board a Chattanooga choo choo 
D6    D  B7 E7    Bm5-/7  E7   Bm5-/7    E7    A7 D G D  
I've got my fare            and just a trifle to spare 
D    D7M  D7   G             D7             G      D7  G  
You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quartert o four  
G           D7                  G     D7 G  
Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore  
C              A7    G                E7  
Dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer 
A7      Em7       A7       Em7    Am7  D7  
Than to have your haman' eggs in Carolina  
G                   D7             G       D7  G 
When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar  
G                   D7          G     D7  G 
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far 
C      C/B     A7       G     G/F#    E7  
Shovel all the coal in, gotta keep it rollin'   
Am7        D7          Am7  D7  G   G7  
Woo, woo, Chattanooga there you are  
C       Dm7   C    C7       F           Fdim   C  
There's gonna be a certain party at the station 
Dm7   Am7  D7  Am7  D7           Dm7   G7    C  
Satin and lace,        I used to call  "funny face"  
C     Dm7   C            C7                 F    Fm 
She's gonna cry until I tell her that I'll never roam  
Bb9 C    G/B    Am7        F        G             C   C/B  A7  
So Chattanooga choo choo, won't you choo-choo me home  
C    G/B    Am7        F          G             C   F   C  
Chattanooga choo choo, won't you choo-choo me home 
    	

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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante