Chords for How to Play "Are You Lonesome To Night" by Elvis Presley

[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ Howdy everyone, it's Julie [Bbm] from Mahalo and I'm your guitar [D] instructor.
[Bb] I'm teaching you country songs today.
This one is pretty much [Gb] considered a country song, I think.
[Bb] I know he started out as a country artist.
[Gb] I'm talking about the [Bbm] king himself, Mr.
Elvis Aaron Presley.
And the [Eb] song I'm doing, Are You [Bb] Lonesome Tonight. _ _
So let's [E] get started.
First of all, this is in a waltz time, so your [Bb] strumming pattern is going to be [Dm] down,
down, up, down, up.
_ _ [Ab] So down, down, up, down, up, or [Bb] if you like to count, [Ab]
one, two, and three, and.
[Bbm] And I hope you like to count because that's going to get you far in life.
_ Okay, [Bb] intro.
D minor, _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ open, [D] two, three, one. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ G7, three, two, open, [E] open, open, [F] and one.
And [C] _
_ _ _ C major, which is three, two, open, one, and open.
And then we go back to [G] G7, _ like this.
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ So again, D minor, _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
G7, _ _ _ [C] C, _
_ _ [G] G7. _ _ _ _
I wanted to do that again [Bb] so I could get a little bit more swing in there.
Remember, to swing [Ab] it, you just [Bbm] want to hit the downstroke a little [Bb] bit harder.
Okay, now we're in our verse.
[Bbm] So verse, we need [C] _ C major, _ [Em] _ _ E [E] minor, open, two, two, open, open, open, _ [Am] _ _
A minor, open,
two, two, one, open, like so.
[C] So C, _ _ E [Em] minor, _ _ [Am] _
A minor, and _ _ then _ _ [A] we are going to go to C major, [C] back again. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ C7, so same C shape, just take that pinky, _ [Bbm] drop it down to [Bb] the third fret of the G string.
[C] _ _ _ _ And then we go to G major.
[G] _ Sorry, [F] not G, _ F major.
_ [Bbm] That's where we go.
C7 is the five of F.
Need to [F] remember that.
_ I do anyway.
Okay, [Bb] so F, bar the first fret, and we [C] have three, three, and two.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now we go to G.
[G] Here's where G is.
So _ three, two, open, open, [Bb] open, and three.
I'm playing G in this [G] manner _ _ _ _ _ _ twice.
And the reason, _ because we're going to go to G7 again.
So it's easy to move my [B] pinky to my first finger here [Bb] and not have to move those two
fingers over there.
So [G] G, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ G7, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
G7 again, _ _ _ _ _ _ back [C] to C. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Then we play C7 twice _ to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] F.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then we're going to [D] go to D, _ which is open, two, [Bb] three, and two, [D] twice.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ D minor, _ back to [G] G, _ _ back [C] to C, _ _ E [Em] minor, _ _ D [D] major twice, _ again, _ _ _ D minor, _ _
_ _ [G] G7, _ _ _ [C]
C, _ _ _ [G] G7. _ _
_ _ _ Now, [Bb] that sexy [Eb] monologue that he does, same chords.
Let me go through them [Bbm] again, but I'm going to sing it this time [Gb] a little bit so you can
hear what it would be.
So starting with the intro, we have D [Dm] minor, _ _ _ _ [G] G7, _ _
_ [C] C, _ _ _ [G] G7.
_ Are you [C] _ lonesome? _
[Em] E minor, _ _ A [Am]
minor, _ A minor. _ _
_ [C] Sorry, C, _ C7.
_ _ To [F] F, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] G, _ stay on G, _ _ _ G7, _ _ again, _ _ _ _ G7, _ _ _ G7, _ sweetheart [C] C, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
C7, _ _ _ C7, _ goes to [F] F in the progression. _
Then we go to [D] D, _ _ _ D, _ _ D minor, _ and [G] G, _ go to [C]
C, _ _ [Em] E minor. _
Now [D] I come back _ to D, _ D minor.
Are you [G] lonesome, G7, to [C] C, _ _ [G] G7, _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ and on C. _
_ [Bb] Oh, Elvis, I love you.
[Eb] Howdy, y'all.
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