4-Chord Guitar Songs

Browse 4-chord guitar songs with chord diagrams, tabs, and playing guides for guitar, ukulele, and piano.

4-Chord Guitar Songs – Chord Charts & Tabs

Discover 1090 songs that use 4 chords. Fewer chords means faster learning — each song below includes full chord diagrams, strumming patterns, and tabs for guitar, ukulele, piano, banjo, and mandolin.

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Shake the Frost

Tyler Childers
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Tyler Childers’s easy-to-play reflective anthem about longing for home. Beginner difficulty in the key of G.
GuitarUkulelePiano
Gtap to play
Ctap to play
Dtap to play
Emtap to play

Angel from Montgomery

John Prine
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
John Prine’s heartbreaking classic about unfulfilled dreams. Beginner difficulty in the key of G.
GuitarUkulelePiano
Dtap to play
Gtap to play
Atap to play
Emtap to play

Pancho and Lefty

Townes Van Zandt
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Townes Van Zandt’s outlaw country masterpiece. Intermediate difficulty in the key of D.
GuitarUkulelePiano
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Dtap to play
Emtap to play

Forever and Ever, Amen

Randy Travis
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Randy Travis’s upbeat country love song with a bouncing rhythm. Beginner difficulty in the key of G.
GuitarUkulelePiano
Dtap to play
Gtap to play
Atap to play
Bmtap to play

Travelin’ Soldier

Dixie Chicks
Advanced
Add fingerpicking arpeggios for texture
Dixie Chicks’ heartfelt ballad about a young soldier and the girl he left behind. Beginner difficulty in the key of…
GuitarUkulelePiano
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Gtap to play
Amtap to play
Ftap to play

Beautiful Crazy

Luke Combs
Advanced
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Luke Combs’ romantic ode to the woman who drives him crazy in the best way. Beginner difficulty in the key…
GuitarUkulelePiano
Amtap to play
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Dtap to play

You Should Probably Leave

Chris Stapleton
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Chris Stapleton’s smoldering tale of temptation and late-night desire. Beginner difficulty in the key of A.
GuitarUkulelePiano
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Amarillo by Morning

George Strait
Advanced
Add fingerpicking arpeggios for texture
George Strait’s iconic rodeo ballad about life on the road and what it costs. Intermediate difficulty in the key of…
GuitarUkulelePiano
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Ctap to play
Dtap to play
Emtap to play

Nose on the Grindstone

Tyler Childers
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Tyler Childers’s working-class anthem about grinding it out. Beginner difficulty in the key of G.
GuitarUkulelePiano
Amtap to play
Ctap to play
Gtap to play
Emtap to play

The Night We Met

Lord Huron
Intermediate
Try a D-DU-UDU strum pattern
Lord Huron’s haunting indie-folk ballad about lost love. Beginner difficulty in the key of A minor.