Nothing Up My Sleeve Chords

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Nothing Up My Sleeve by Wilco is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, Cm, D, Em, B7, A7, Dsus4, Am and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Nothing Up My Sleeve from Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Engineer Demos album. 

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There's one chord that is just a C but with the A string on the fourth fret, 
 rather than on the third, I'm just gonna call it a C, 
 you don't need to play it for the song to work,  
but for the sake of accuracy,  
I think that's it. 

Intro: G C Cm G 

G                    C 
I won't ever cry for you 
    Cm                            G 
And you won't ever shed tears for me 
        G             C 
There's nothing up my sleeve 
     Cm                  G 
That you haven't already seen 

G             D               C 
It's not that I don't care at all 
Em       D           C 
We lost touch so long ago 
B7            Em 
It may be our anniversary 
   A7                    D   Dsus4 
But I, I wouldn't really know 

    Em               Am 
The phone won't ever ring 
       D             G 
In the middle of the night 
    G7            C 
And if it ever does 
      Cm                     Em 
I can assure you it won't be me 


G C C* C 

G                  C 
I'll find somebody new 
    Cm                      G 
And you might find somebody too 
        G               C 
There's something up his sleeve 
     Cm                  G 
That you haven't already seen 

G            D         C 
It's not that I don't care anymore 
Em      D        C 
We lost touch so long ago 
B7           Em 
It may be our anniversary 
    A7                   D    Dsus4 
But I, I wouldn't really know 

   Em              Am 
My phone won't ever ring 
       D            G 
In the middle of the night 
 G7              C 
And if it ever does 
      Cm                    Em 
I can assure you it won't be me 

G C C* C 
(Whistle the melody!) 
G C Cm G 
G C Cm G 

G        D           C 
It's not that I don't care at all 
Em      D        C 
We lost touch so long ago 
B7            Em 
It may be our anniversary 
    A7                  D      Dsus4 
But I, I wouldn't really know 

Outro: G C Cm G 
    	

Chord diagrams

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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