I Only Wanna Be With You Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my I Only Wanna Be With You chords and guitar lesson. This is a really great song that will help you work on your strumming skills. This song uses a Capo at the 4th fret which helps us eliminate the need for pisky barre chords. Yay!

Let's take a look at the chords and strumming patterns below.

I Only Wanna Be With You Guitar Chords:

I Only Wanna Be With You Strumming Patterns:

Strumming:
D                   G
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
DU DU DU DU     UD    DU DU

I Only Wanna Be With You Guitar Lesson:

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I Only Wanna Be With You Chord Chart:

CAPO ON THE 4TH FRET

INTRO:                       1 2 3 4 |
|D G| |D G| |D G| | A7sus4 |
|D G| |D G| |D G| |D G|

VERSE:
|D               G|           |D                                    G|
 You and me, we come from diff'rent worlds.
|D                    G|                                 |D                     G|
 You like to laugh at me when I look at other girls.
|D                                    G|   |D                                  G|
 Sometimes you're crazy   and you wonder why
|D                   G|                          | D                                G|
 I'm such a baby 'cause the dolphins make me cry.
                         Em7                        G
Well, there's nothing I can do.
                                                           |D G| | D G|
I've been looking for a girl like you.

VERSE:
|D                    G|                    |D                         G|
 You look at me, you got nothing left to say.
|D           G |                  |D                     G|
 I only pout at you until I get my way.
|D             G|       |D                    G|
 I won't dance,    you won't sing.
|D                          G|                              |D                             G|
  I just want to love you, but you want to wear my ring.
                            Em7                     G
Well, there's nothing I can do.
                                         |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.
                 Em7                          A7sus7
You can call me your fool,
                                          |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.

VERSE:
|D                             G|    | D                       G|
  Put on a little Dylan,    sitting on a fence.
|D                      G|                           |D                            G|
  I say, "That line is great." You ask me what it meant by:
|D                         G|                            |D                            G|
  "Said I shot a man named Gray,   took his wife to Italy.
|D                          G|                                |D                          G|
  She inherit a million bucks and when she died, came to me.
             Em7                            G
I can't help it if I'm lucky."
                                         |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.
Em7                                A7sus4
      Ain't Bobby so cool?
                                          |D G|
I only wanna be with you.

SOLO:
|D G| x7
                   Em7 G
Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue,
                                         |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.
                 Em7                      A7sus4
You can call me your fool,
                                          |D G| | D G||D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.

VERSE:
|D                         G |       |D                         G|
Sometimes I wonder,     if we'll ever end.
|D                     G|                            |D                    G|
 You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends.
|D                                    G|   |D                                  G|
 Sometimes you're crazy   and you wonder why
|D                    G |                         |D                               G|
 I'm such a baby, yeah, the dolphins make me cry.
                         Em7                         G
Well, there's nothing I can do.
                                            |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.
               Em7                    A7sus4
You can call me a fool,
                                            |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.
               Em7                     A7sus4
Yeah, I'm tangled up in blue,
                                          |D G| | D G|
I only wanna be with you.

OUTRO:
                                           |D G| | D G|
Only wanna be with you.
                                           |D G| | D G|
Only wanna be with you.
                                            |D G| D
Only wanna be with you.

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