Hey Willie Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays478

Hey Willie by Waylon Jennings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, D, G and C/G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
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             E                      A 
        Hey Willie let's pack up and catch us a slow train 
      D                              G 
        And go back to Phoenix to a far brighter day 
                E                           A 
        Where stars were for shining in the Arizona sky 
      D                                       G 
        And music meant more than fortune or fame 

verse 1 
         C/G                   G 
        Willie,we wandered from border to border 
      D                          G 
        Singing our stories and living our songs 
                  C/G           G 
        Seems the farther we go,all that grows closer 
              A                        D 
        Is a mind full of memories we made years ago 

verse 2 
          C/G                             G 
        We rolled through the towns like a bus load of gypsies 
      D                         G 
        Motels and hotels ain't no place to stay 
            C/G                G 
        The favors we're taking,the money we're making 
               A                      D 
        Won't pay for the living,we're giving away 
    	

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