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Achy Breaky Heart chords by Billy Ray Cyrus

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Achy Breaky Heart | Chords + Lyrics

Intro

||: A (A6) :|| x4

Verse 1

| A (A6) | A (A6) |
You can tell the world, you never was my girl.
| A (A6) | E (E6) |
You can burn my clothes up when I’m gone.
| E (E6) | E (E6) |
Or you can tell your friends just what a fool I’ve been.
| E (E6) | A (A6) |
And laugh and joke about me on the phone.

Verse 2

| A (A6) | A (A6) |
You can tell my arms go back to the farm.
| A (A6) | E (E6) |
You can tell my feet to hit the floor.
| E (E6) | E (E6) |
Or you can tell my lips, to tell my fingertips.
| E (E6) | A (A6) |
They won’t be reaching out for you no more.

Chorus 1

| A (A6) | A (A6) |
But don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.
| A (A6) | E (E6) |
I just don’t think he’d understand.
| E (E6) | E (E6) |
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.
| E (E6) | A (A6) |
He might blow up and kill this man, ooh.

Instrumental 1

| A (A6) | A (A6) | A (A6) | E (E6) |
| E (E6) | E (E6) | E (E6) | A (A6) |

Verse 3

| A (A6) | A (A6) |
You can tell your ma, I moved to Arkansas.
| A (A6) | E (E6) |
Or you can tell your dog to bite my leg.
| E (E6) | E (E6) |
Or tell your brother Cliff, who’s fist can tell my lips.
| E (E6) | A (A6) |
He never really liked me anyway.

Verse 4

| A (A6) | A (A6) |
Or tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please.
| A (A6) | E (E6) |
Myself already knows I’m not okay.
| E (E6) | E (E6) |
Or you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind.
| E (E6) | A (A6) |
It might be walking out on me one day.

Chorus 2

Instrumental 2

| A (A6) | A (A6) | A (A6) | E (E6) |
| E (E6) | E (E6) | E (E6) | A (A6) |

Chorus 3

Chorus 4 (breakdown)

| N.C | N.C |
Don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.
| N.C | N.C |
I just don’t think he’d understand.
| N.C | N.C |
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart.
| N.C | N.C |
He might blow up and kill this man, ooh.

Outro

||: A (A6) | A (A6) | A (A6) | E (E6) |
| E (E6) | E (E6) | E (E6) | A (A6) :||

Achy Breaky Heart chords, progressions, and TAB

Once you got yourself a good chord progression, you may wanna hang on to it. That’s clearly what Don Von Tress figured when he came up with the chords for Don’t Tell My Heart (1991).

Two years later Billy Ray Cyrus covered it, and now with the title Achy Breaky Heart, it would become his signature song.

The chords are just I – V in the key of A, using honky-tonk comping. The question is exactly how do you honky tonk in this particular case, and, what other tunes can we compare it with in order to get better at the honky tonk?

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