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When You Really Love Someone

Alicia Keys

PopMedium for beginners9 chords

How to play it

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

Em
Am×
C×
D××
Bm×
G
E
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Chords & lyrics

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Em 
I need a real man to give me 
Am 
what I 
C 
need 
 
Sweet attention, 
D 
love and 
Bm 
tenderness 
 
When it's 
 
In 
real, it's unconditional, I'm telling y'all 
 
'Cause just a man, if a man Is not 
Am 
He Is not 
C 
man enough 
 
To love you when you're right 
 
Love you when you're wrong 
 
Love 
 
G 
you when you're weak 
 
Love you when you're strong 
Em 
Take you higher 
 
When the world 
C 
got your feeling low 
Bm 
He's giving 
D 
you his last 'Cause 
 
In 
he's thinking of you first 
 
Giving comfort, When he's thinking That You're hurt 
 
That's what's done When You 
D 
really love someone 
 
I'm tellin ' 
Em 
y'all 
 
I'm tellin 'y'all 
E 
'Cause you're a real 
Em 
man 
 
And Lord knows it's 
Am 
hard 
 
Sometimes 
C 
you just need 
Bm 
a woman's touch 
 
Sweet affection, love and support 
Em 
When it's real, it's unconditional 
 
I'm telling y'all, oh 
 
'Cause the 
Am 
Is not woman 
C 
the woman if she 
Bm 
Is not woman enough 
 
To 
Em 
love you when you're right 
 
Love you 
B 
when you're wrong 
 
Love You When 
Em 
you're weak 
 
Love you when you're 
C 
strong 
 
Take you higher 
 
When the world got your feeling low 
 
She's 
Em 
giving you her best 
 
Even when you're at your worse 
 
When Giving comfort 
C 
That You're thinking she's hurt 
D 
That's what's done 
Bm 
When You really 
Em 
love someone 
 
telling y'all 
 
I'm telling y'all 
 
Sometimes you're gonna 
Am 
argue 
 
Sometimes you're gonna fight 
 
Sometimes it's gonna feel like, it'll never be right 
Em 
But something so strong keeps you hold on and on 
 
It do not make sense but it makes a good song 
 
'Cause the man Is not just a man if He Is not man enough 
 
To love you when you're right 
 
Love you when you're wrong 
 
Love 
C 
you when you're 
Bm 
weak 
 
Love you when you're strong 
Em 
When the world got you feelin 'low 
 
He's giving you his 
Am 
last 
 
'Cause 
C 
he's thinking of you first 
 
When Giving comfort 
Bm 
he's thinking 
Em 
That You're hurt 
 
That's what's done When You really love someone 
 
I'm telling y'all 
 
I'm telling y'all 
 
I'm telling 
C 
y'all Is not That a woman to woman 
 
If 
D 
She Is not woman enough 
Em 
Love you when you're right 
 
Love you when you're wrong 
 
Love You When 
C 
you're 
 
weak 
 
Love you when you're strong 
D 
Take you higher and 
Em 
higher 
 
When the world got you feeling low 
 
She's giving you 
Am 
her 
 
best 
 
Even when you're at your worse 
 
Giving comfort 
G 
When She's thinkin 'that you're hurt 
 
That's 
Em 
what's done When You really love someone 
 
I'm tellin 'y'all 
 
I'm tellin 'y'all 
 
Hmm, hmm, yeah 
 
Hmm, hmm, yeah 
 
Hmm, hmm, 
C#m 
yeah 
          
 

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Chord set

Em · Am · C · D · Bm · G · E · B · C#m

Practice tip

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