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Left That Body Long Ago

Amy Macdonald

RockEasy for beginners4 chords

How to play it

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

G
D××
Am×
C×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: G 
 
      G 
Oh my dance is getting slower now  
          D 
'cause my years they're getting older now.  
       Am                                   C 
And my eyes, they won't cry. My tears have all run dry. 
 
       G 
And my memory doesn't get me very far,  
           D                                
I can't remember my name or exactly who you are.  
      Am                     C 
And I don't know why, no I don't know why. 
 
         G                          D 
Will you please believe I'm not the person you see,  
                  Am                           C 
I left that body long ago. I left it way back there. 
 
         G                      D 
Will you please believe, given all that you see,  
                 Am                      C 
I left that body long ago, but somehow nobody knows. 
 
       G                             D 
So goodbye, you were my world and my life.  
                  Am                                    C 
And I don't know why you've lost your mother, lost your wife. 
 
            G                                   D 
But there's more, something more than meets the eye.  
                Am                    C 
This is not the end, this is only goodbye. 
 
         G                           D 
Will you please believe I'm not the person you see,  
                  Am                           C 
I left that body long ago. I left it way back there. 
 
        G                         D 
Now I'm free, I'm as happy as can be.  
                     Am                         C 
I just wanted you to know that I left that body long ago. 
        G 
So long ago.  
          
 

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Chord set

G · D · Am · C

Practice tip

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