Chatahoochie

Alan Jackson

CountryMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
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B-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
G-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
D----------------------------------5------------------------------| 
A-2s3-3-3---2s3-3-3---2s3-3-3--5-7-----2s3-3-3---2s3-3-3--5-7-5-3-| 
E-----------------------------------------------------------------| 
 
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B----------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G----------------------------------------------------5-----------------| 
D----------------------------------5-------------------7-5---5---5-----| 
A-2s3-3-3---2s3-3-3---2s3-3-3--5-7--2/3-3-3---2/3-3-3------7---7---7-3-| 
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C 
Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee 
                      G          C 
Its get hotter than a Hoochie-Koochie 
C 
We laid rubber on the Georgia asphalt 
C                            G        C 
We got a little crazy but we never got caught 
F 
Down by the river on a Friday night 
C 
A few Miller cans in the pale moonlight 
F 
Talkin' 'bout cars and dreamin' 'bout women 
D7                                      G 
Never had a plan, just alivin' for the minute 
 
 
C 
Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee 
                                     G 
never knew how much that muddy water meant to me 
C 
But I learned how to swim and I learned who I was 
                         G 
A lot 'bout living and a little 'bout love 
 
 
 
C 
We fogged up the window in my ole chevy 
                     G         C 
I was willin but she wasn't ready' 
C 
So I settled for a burger and a grape snow cone 
C                             G         C 
I dropped her off early but I didn't go home 
F 
Down by the river on a Friday night 
C 
A few Miller can in the pale moonlight 
F 
Talkin' 'bout cars and dreamin' 'bout women 
D7                                     G 
Never had a plan, just alivin' for the minute 
 
 
 
C 
Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee 
                                     G 
never knew how much that muddy water meant to me 
C 
But I learned how to swim and I learned who I was 
                         G 
A lot 'bout living and a little 'bout love

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Chord set

C · G · F · D7

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.