The Love Goodbye

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RockAdvanced for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

G#mDiagram coming soon

F#mDiagram coming soon

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

 
              
 
 
Intro:
 
E  A  E  A  E  A 
Ooooooooh 
 
E 
Once a girl 
A 
In mommy?s world 
G#m                        A 
Laughing, rhyming, singing songs 
G#m                  F#m 
In her newly learned tongue 
 
E  A  E  A  E  A 
Ooooooooh 
 
E 
our girl 
A 
In this world 
G#m                        A 
Married to a stranger?s name 
G#m                    F#m 
Writing to him all the same 
 
E                    A 
Oh but where can she go 
        E      A 
If she?s going alone? 
E             A 
Where can she go 
        E       A 
If she?s going alone? 
 
E            A      G#m 
Where can she go to avoid 
          F#m 
The love goodbye? 
 
E  A  E  A  E  A 
Oooooooooh 
 
All the same 
F#m 
Letters answer letters 
           G#m 
In a round about way 
         A 
?Sweet darling? they commence, 
           F#m           E 
But she no longer feels that way 
 
           E 
Oh there?s not a soul 
        A 
In the streets below 
      G#m 
She's sitting by the window, 
     F#m 
Clinging to the phone 
   G#m 
Dialing endless numbers 
  F#m 
No reply 
      G#m    A 
Love goodbye. 
 
E  A  E  A  E  A 
Ooooooooh 
 
E                    A 
Oh but where can she go 
        E      A 
If she?s going alone? 
E             A 
Where can she go 
        E       A 
If she?s going? 
 
E                    A 
where can she go 
        E      A 
If she?s going alone? 
E    A 
She?s going alone 
E        A 
She?s going?

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Chord set

E · A · G#m · F#m

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.