Understanding Guitar chords

albertocheets,
Gaud             Eaud
  (X)                 (X)
  (4)                 (1)
  (0)                 (1)
  (1)                 (2)
  (2)                 (3)
  (3)                 (0)
Hope this helped

The song "Take Good Care Of My Baby" was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and was first a hit for Bobby Vee in 1961. It was 17 years later, in 1978 when The Beatles cover version on the bootleg "Decca Tapes" album was released. OK enough of the history lesson.

I play it in F and there is certainly an Faug so in G there will be a Gaug but no other augmented chords. I believe that the 'aud' is a 'typo' from the author.

Albertocheets, welcome to Chordie, may I suggest that you also look at the Bobby Vee version of this song as you may find the chords have been worked out better there.

Roger

Hello again Albertocheets,
Sorry the explanation above did not satisfy.  Here is another angle on what an augmented chord is:
In the song you are learning, the chord progression is G - Gaug - C.
In this case the Gaug is used as a way of making the transition from G to C more 'interesting'.

Here are the notes in each chord:
G =       G B D
Gaug =  G B D#
C =        C E G

This series of chords has a nice chromatic (1/2 step) sequence (D, D#, E).
This little line of notes is subtle, but it makes for a very pleasing effect.
Augmented chords are often used like this.
Alone, augmented chords sound a little 'off', but used between 'regular' chords they work nicely.

As Roger Guppy pointed out, the song was originally composed by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.  These two composed mostly at the piano.  Consequently, they often use chords that may seem unusual to guitarists.