Word Up! by Korn | Lyrics with Guitar Chords

Korn recorded a cover version of Word Up, originally by Cameo, for their Greatest Hits album in 2004. It’s played using a 7 string guitar. It’s one of the only songs the band sent out to radio stations to promote as a single.

You can learn to play Word Up! by Korn with guitar chords, lyrics and a strumming trainer directly in the Uberchord app. This app listens to your guitar chords and gives you visual feedback in real-time in case you make a mistake.

Key of the Song:

The original key of Word Up! by Korn is in E minor.

Guitar Chords for Word Up! by Korn

As this is a hard rock song, we recommend playing the chords as power chords. This would entail playing E as E5, D as D5, and C and C5. All you need to do to play this is just adapt each chord shape to a powerchord, i.e. 355 for C and 022 for E5. 

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Word Up! by Korn – Lyrics with Chords

[Verse 1]
 
E                  D
You pretty ladies around the world
      C                   D            E
Got a weird thing to show you so tell all the boys and girls
                                        D
Tell your brother, your sister and your mama, too
       C          D            E
we're about to go down and you know just what to do
                                 D
Wave your hands in the air like you don't care
C             D             E
Glide by the people as they start to look and stare
                               D                     C
Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick, mama
      D            E
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
 
 
[Refrain]
 
E                     D
Now - word up,up ,up everybody say
          C                D       E
When you hear the call you got to get it underway
                  D             C                D
Word up, it's the code word, no matter where you say it
       E
You'll know that you'll be heard
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
E                          D
Now all you sucker DJs who think you're fly
        C           D             E
There's got to be a reason and we know the reason why
                                  D
You try to put on those airs and act real cool
        C         D                E
But you got to realize that you're acting like fools
                                      D
If there's music we can use it, we`re free to dance
C                 D               E
We don't have that time for psychological romance
                        D                  C
No romance, no romance, no romance for me, mama
D                     E
Come on baby, tell me what's the word
 
 
[Refrain]
 
E                   D
Now - word up,up,up everybody say
         C                 D      E
When you hear the call you got to get it underway
                  D              C              D
Word up, it's the code word, no matter where you say it
       E
You'll know that you'll be heard (3x)