Ed Sheeran - Wake Me Up
Standard tuning - Capo 1st fret
Half-step down tuning (originally played like that) - Capo 2nd fret
With the capo, I recommend to use whatever fits your voice the best,
I personally prefer playing this song in standard tuning with no capo.
No strumming ! Just fingerpicking. Only one „pick“ at a time.
G - [ 3 x x 0 3 3 ]
C - [ x 3 x 0 1 0 ]
Dadd9(add4) /later marked as D9 only, although it’s not a D9/ - [ x 5 x 0 3 0 ]
Intro: G C D9 C
Note: In this first verse, after every C chord I play I like to play an open B
string then hammer on the first fret and then pull off.
Something like this: e||-----------||
B||---0h1p0---||
G||-----------||
D||-----------||
A||-----------||
E||-----------||
It adds some spirit, but to my ears it only fits in this first verse of the song.
G C
I should ink my skin, with your name.
G C
And take my passport out again, and just replace it.
G
See I could do without a tan on my left hand,
C
where my fourth finger meets my knuckle.
G C
And I should run you a hot bath, fill it up with bubbles.
C D9
Cause maybe your loveable, and maybe your my snowflake,
G
and your eyes turn from green to grey,
C
in the winter I'll hold you in a cold place.
C
And you should never cut your hair,
D9 G C
cause I love the way you flick it off your shoulder, (mmmm)
C D9 G C
And you will never know, just how beautiful you are to me,
C D9 G
but maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up.
G
And Would you ever feel guilty? If you did the same to me.
C D9
Would you make me a cup of tea, to open my eyes in the right way
G
And I know you love shrek, 'cause we've watched it twelve times.
C D9 G
But, maybe you're hoping for a fairy-tale to, but if your DVD breaks today,
C D9
You should of got a VCR, because I've never owned a blueray, true say.
G
And I've always been shit at computer games, and your brother always beats me,
C D9
And if I lost, i'd go across and chuck all the controllers at the tv, and
G
then you'd laugh at me,and be asking me, if I'm going to be home next week,
C
and then you'd lie with me, until I fall asleep,
D9
and flutter an eyelash on my cheek, between the sheets.
C D9 G C
And you will never know, just how beautiful you are to me,
C D9 G
but maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up.
G
And I think you hate the smell of smoke, you always try get me to stop,
C D9
You drink as much as me, and I get drunk alot,
G G
So I take you to the beach, and walk along the sand,
C D9
And I'll make you a heart pendant, with a pebble held in my hand.
G
And I'll carve it like a necklace, so the heart falls where your chest is,
C D9
And now a piece of me, is a piece of the beach, and it falls just where it
G
needs to be, and rests peacefully, you just need to breathe,
C D9
to feel my heart against yours now, against yours now.
Strumming starts here. No strumming up the strings, only down.
The last line of this last verse is fingerpicked again.
C D9 Em G
Maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up.
C D9 Em G
Maybe I'm just in love when you wake me up.
C D9 G
Maybe I fell in love, when you woke me up.
