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My First Night Alone Without You

Bonnie Raitt

RockMedium for beginners6 chords

How to play it

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

Am×○○
G○○○
F
C×○○
Dm××○
Em○○○○

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro: Am  G  F  G 
 
Verse 1:
Am            G           F   G 
There is an aching in my head 
Am        C               Dm  Am 
From the bed I can't get used to 
Am                  G                    F   G 
It's these little hours in the dark, I dread 
Am                    C           Dm    Am 
As I spend my first night alone without you 
 
Verse 2:
Am       G                  F   G 
Honey, half of me has gone away 
Am             C                Dm   Am 
With all the love I learned to cling to 
Am                     G            F  G 
Tomorrow I'll have to find another way 
Am           C 
To live the rest of my life alone 
  Dm    Am  Dm  Am 
Without you 
 
 
 C                    Em 
You taught me how to live 
       F    G 
How to be myself 
            Am 
And how to give 
        Em        F 
Oh, but now it's you 
        Em  F  Dm     G 
Who's given up on giving 
 
Bridge:
 C                     Em 
You've lost the thing, no one to teach 
    F         G 
Changing and now you're out of reach 
       Dm                 C 
And my life tonight just don't seem 
        G 
Worth living 
F   G 
No, no 
 
 
Am            G                    F   G 
I've been sitting learning how to read 
Am              C              Dm  Am 
Cause back in school I never liked to 
Am                       G 
It's just one of those little things 
           F   G 
I'm gonna need 
Am                  C              Dm    Am 
As I put my life together, baby, without you 
 
Final: Dm  C  G 
        Am  G  F  Dm

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Chord set

Am · G · F · C · Dm · Em

Practice tip

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