What If I Came Knocking chords

John Mellencamp

Key: 

Simplify chords 

  			 

Tuning:EADGBE 


  Am    F  Fadd9*   G (sounds best if you really let the high E ring w/each chord) 
e|-0----0--0---0----3-----------------------------------------------------------| 
B|-1----1--1---1----3-----------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-2----2--0h2-2----0-----------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-2----3--3---3----0-----------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-0----x--x---x----0-----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|-x----x--x---x----3-----------------------------------------------------------| 


Am                  F  Fadd9*               G 
What if I came knocking on your front door some night? 
Am                    F  Fadd9*                   G 
Would you open the window and drop me down the key? 
Am                    F  Fadd9*                   G 
What if I came knocking on your bedpost that same night? 
Am                     F                      G 
Would you open up your heart or try to get the best of me? 


Am F Fadd9* G 


Am                   F Fadd9*                G 
What if I came knocking on your brain the next day 
Am                  F Fadd9*                     G 
And ask for your truth and your love and your honesty? 
Am                   F   Fadd9*                      G 
Would you build up your big walls and try to hide behind that smile 
Am                   F                         G 
Or would you try to pull the wool right over me? 


Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 
Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 


Am                   F  Fadd9*           G 
So what if I came kicking scared you a little bit 
Am                  F Fadd9*         G  
And came on strong would you think 
Am                  F Fadd9*            G 
That there's something wrong with me? 
Am                  F Fadd9*                G 
Or could it be your fear, of trying something real 
Am                   F              G 
Or just afraid to touch a guy like me? 


Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 
Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 

Am 
Drums 

N.C. 
So let's just say it worked out like a storybook dream 
N.C. 
And we lived happily ever after 
            G (x6)  
Fa la la la 


  A Gsus A  F Gsus 
e|----x------0---x-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|----3------1---3-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|-2--0--2---2---0-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-2--0--2---3---0-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|-0--0--0---x---0-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|----3------x---3-----------------------------------------------------------------| 


Am               F Fadd9*         G 
What if I came crying after just a few weeks 
Am                 F  Fadd9*     
And said I misread my heart 
                  G 
It's not really meant to be?  

Am F Fadd9* G 

Am                  F Fadd9*                  G 
So if you hear some knocking on your window tonight 
Am                  F Fadd9*             G 
You can bet that it's,huh, probably me 
Am                  F Fadd9*                  G 
But let it be known that we're just a pair of tumbling dice 
Am                 F                    G 
And the outcome of these crap shoots is hard to see 


Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 
Am                   F  Fadd9*   G 
So what if I came knocking? 


Am            F Fadd9*                         G 
Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knocking 
Am       F Fadd9*    G 
Kick, kick, kick 
Am             F Fadd9*   G 
What if I came knocking? 
Am                F         G 
On your front porch tonight, tonight? 

G (x6) Am