Crying Chords

Song: Crying
Artist: Don McLean
Composers: Roy Orbison & Joe Melson
Album: Chain lightning
 
Tabbed by DJ  22nd Feb 2016
 
For a TV performance in standard pitch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjMNOouIb0k
 
To match the sharp pitch of the original single version,
(and also for the live version in the link below)
use a chromatic tuner, and tune all your strings up
approx. +40 cents above standard tuning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqkhWJJ6dec
 
The Fm6 and the Cmaj7 are optional additions suggested
by the sound of the full arrangement.
 
IGNORE THE CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS that the website
displays, they are generated automatically from a
generic database and often don't show the best
option for a particular chord progression. Just use
the voicings suggested in the text column numbers
 
 C        = x32010    G7     = 320001    G    = 320033
 C+(add9) = x32130    F6     = xx3231    Am   = x02210
 F        = 133211    Am     = x02210    Bb   = x13331
 Fm       = 133111    Em     = 022000    Ab   = 466544
(Fm6)     = 133131   (Cmaj7) = x32000    G7/D = xx0001
 
 N.C. = No chords
 
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[Intro]
   C
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[Verse 1]
           C            C              C           C
I was al - right, for a while, I could smile for a while,
           C                               C+(add9)
But when I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight,
         F       N.C.         Fm
When you stopped to say hel - lo,
(Fm6)      Fm         C                   G7
       And though you wished me well, you couldn't tell...
 
[Chorus]
G7                C      Em        C      Em
    That I'd been crying over you, crying over you,
     F6   F              G
Then you  ...said, "It's so long!",
        F6       F          G
Left me standing ...all a - lone,
          C       C+(add9) F       Fm     (Fm6)
Alone and crying, crying,  crying, crying-------,
     Fm      C       Am
It's hard to under - stand,
         G                               C
That the touch of your hand can start me crying 
 
[Verse 2]
               C          C             C  (Cmaj7)   C
I thought that I was over you, but it's true----, so true,
           C                 C+(add9)
I love you even more, than I did before,
     F                   Fm   (Fm6)
But, darling, what can I do----------,
Fm      C                       G7
Ah, you don't love me, and I'll always be...
 
[Chorus]
C      Em        C      Em
Crying over you, crying over you
F        G                 F                G
Yes, now you're gone, and, from this moment on,
        C                C+(add9)
I'll be crying, (crying) crying, (crying)
F                 Fm          C
Crying, (crying)  crying, I'm crying,
C        Am    F   G
Crying-------  o - ver...
   C              Bb             Ab    G G7/D   C
...You----------------------------------------------!
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