The Little Girl Chords

KeyC Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays485

The Little Girl by John Michael Montgomery is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, F, Am and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			Messed up my first one here is the correct way
 
intro
Solo :  capo=1       
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
G-----1-1-1--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
D-----------4-3-1-3-4-3-1-3-4-3-1---1------------------------------------------- 
             
A---------------------------------4---4--1h3s4---------------------------------- 
             
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C                          F             C 
Her Parents never took the young girl to church 
       F           C           Am           G 
Never spoke of his name, never read her his word 
C                        F            C 
Two nonbelievers walking lost in this world 
           F         C           Am         G 
Took their baby with them what a sad little girl 

C                           F         C 
Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs 
      F         C            Am         G 
Never wanted to play or give kisses and hugs 
C                          F            C 
She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch  
          F        C              Am         G 
while her mom fell asleep and her daddy went out  

        Am               F 
and the drinking and the fighting  
C                    G 
just got worse every night  
       Am                   F 
behind their couch she'd be hiding  
C                    G 
oh what a sad little life 

Solo :  capo=1       
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
G-----1-1-1--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
D-----------4-3-1-3-4-3-1-3-4-3-1---1------------------------------------------- 
             
A---------------------------------4---4--1h3s4---------------------------------- 
             
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

C                           F            C 
And like it always does the bad just got worse  
     F     C        Am    G 
with every slap and every curse  
C                    F              C 
until her daddy in a drunk rage one night  
       F          C       Am            G 
used a gun on her mom and then took his life  

         Am            F 
and some people from a city  
C                 G 
took the girl far away  
     Am            F 
to a new mom and a new dad  
C                     G 
kisses and hugs every day 
Solo :  capo=1       
E------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
B------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
G-----1-1-1--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
             
D-----------4-3-1-3-4-3-1-3-4-3-1---1------------------------------------------- 
             
A---------------------------------4---4----------------------------------------- 
             
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

C                                  F              C 
her first day of Sunday school the teacher walked in  
      F            C                Am         G 
and a small little girl stared at a picture of him  
C                           F             C 
she said I know that man up there on that cross  
  F              C          Am          G 
I don't know his name but I know he got off  

             Am          F 
cause he was there in my old house  
C                        G 
and held me close to his side 
     Am               F 
as I hid there behind our couch  
C                         G 
the night that my parents died 
outro
Solo :  capo=1       
E-----------------------------------------------1-------------------------------- 
             
B-----------------------------------------------2-------------------------------- 
             
G-----1-1-1-------------------------------------1-------------------------------- 
             
D-----------4-3-1-3-4-3-1-3-4-3-1---------1-----3-------------------------------- 
             
A------------------------------------4----------4-------------------------------- 
             
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante