Walking On Sunshine | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: N.C (drums) :|| x8
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :||
Oh! Mm, yeah.
Verse 1
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :|| x8
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure.
And I just can’t wait till the day when you knock on my door.
Now every time I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down.
‘Cause I just can’t wait till you write me you’re coming around.
Chorus 1
||: F | F | Eb | Eb :||
Now I’m walking on sunshine, woah.
I’m walking on sunshine, woah.
I’m walking on sunshine, woah, and don’t it feel good!
Chorus tag 1
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :||
Hey, alright now, and don’t it feel good!
Hey yeah.
Verse 2
I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that it’s true.
And I don’t want to spend my whole life, just waiting for you.
Now I don’t want u back for the weekend not back for a day, no no no.
I said Baby, I just want you back and I want you to stay. Woah yeah!
Chorus 2
I’m walking on sunshine, woah.
I’m walking on sunshine, woah.
I’m walking on sunshine, woah, and don’t it feel good!
Chorus tag 2
Hey, alright now, and don’t it feel good!
Yeah, oh yeah, and don’t it feel good!
Instrumental (as verse)
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :||
M8
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :|| x6
Walking on sunshine.
Walking on sunshine.
I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that’s really real.
I feel alive, I feel the love, I feel the love that’s really real.
I’m on sunshine baby oh, oh yeah.
I’m on sunshine baby, oh!
Chorus 3
I’m walking on sunshine, woah.
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, woah, and don’t it feel good!
Chorus tag 3 (x9)
Hey, alright now, and don’t it feel good
I’ll say it, say it, say it again now, and don’t it feel good!
Oh, yeah now, and don’t it feel good!
Now don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it feel good!
I’ll say it, say it, say it again now, and don’t feel good
Now don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it, don’t it feel good!
Now tell me, tell me, tell me again now, and don’t it feel good!
Oh, yeah now, and don’t it feel good!
Oh don’t it feel good, don’t it feel good, now don’t it feel good?
Outro
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :|| to fade
||: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah (don’t it feel good) :|| to fade
Walking On Sunshine Chords: Learn the progressions
Walking On Sunshine‘s chords are simple, the verse is just I – IV – V – IV, like this on the key of Bb:
||: Bb (I) | Eb (IV) | F (V) | Eb (IV) :|| x8
The chorus is even easier, only going between V and IV (a progression usually reserved for bridges).
||: F (V) | F | Eb (IV) | Eb :||
You could play the same rhythm you probably already know from playing You Can’t Hurry Love.
However, as the only guitar player in the band, you may want to consider building dynamics, not just playing the same thing over and over.
I’ve designed some TAB for how I reckon you should play this classic using three different ideas.
Here’s a link to the TAB lesson: Walking On Sunshine – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Back from the TAB lesson and ready to try out your CAGED system shapes, you could use this chord chart as a guide.

Walking On Sunshine Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Walking On Sunshine Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Walking On Sunshine iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
Walking On Sunshine is a covers band standard!
Katrina & The Waves‘ 1985 worldwide hit Walking On Sunshine quickly got into the working band’s set list and has stayed there for several decades.
Sales of 2 million in the U.S. alone certainly helped but I think it’s the working bands that cemented this classic into the public’s consciousness.
Perhaps the secret is that since we only have two chord progressions to worry about, it’s easy to learn!
As if that wasn’t easy enough, for the main part, we should seemingly play just one rhythm which you probably knew from having You Can’t Hurry Love in the set already!
Perhaps these two tunes could be turned into a medley, they are in the same key…
Walking On Sunshine Chords | Related Pages
Walking On Sunshine | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Walking On Sunshine by Katrina & The Waves using TAB and chord analysis.
||: Bb | Eb | F | Eb :||
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure…
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Katrina And The Waves tunes
Starting out as a covers band with half-American, half-English members, Katrina And The Waves was an ’80s New Wave band.
Their best tunes include Going Down To Liverpool, Walking On Sunshine, Sun Street, and Love Shine A Light.
Katrina And The Waves on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Walking On Sunshine’s chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not by practising scales or studying theory in isolation.