As Tears Go By Chords

by Marianne Faithfull
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
Capo: no capo
Author markpytko [a] 87.
2 contributors total, last edit on Jan 31, 2025

Chords

C
D
G
F
Am

Strumming

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https://open.spotify.com/track/5zyYjd6yeJsO37EHGDhv5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efIjZ_1yQg
 
I play it picking style by hitting the root note then the G-B-e-B-G strings.
Examples of three chords:
        C                        D                      G
e|------------0------|    |---------2------|    |-------------3-------|
B|----------1---1----|    |-------3---3----|    |----------0-----0----|
G|--------0--------0-|    |-----2--------2-|    |-------0-----------0-|
D|-----X-------------|    |---0------------|    |-----X---------------|
A|---3---------------|    |-X--------------|    |---X-----------------|
E|-X-----------------|    |-X--------------|    |-3-------------------|
 
[Intro]
C    D    F    G
C    D    G    G
 
[Verse 1]
C           D              F     G
  It is the evening of the day,
C           D                  F      G
  I sit and watch the children play.
F               G          C             Am
  Smiling faces I can see,   but not for me,
F           F                 G     G
  I sit and watch as tears go by.
 
[Verse 2]
C           D              F      G
  My riches can't buy everything,
C           D                 F      G
  I want to hear the children sing.
F               G           C                 Am
  All I hear is   the sound   of rain falling on the ground,
F           F                 G      G
  I sit and watch as tears go by.
 
[Instrumental] (Hobo plays Verse)
C    D    F    G
C    D    F    G
F    G    C    Am
F    F    G    G
 
[Verse 3]
C           D              F     G
  It is the evening of the day,
C           D                  F      G
  I sit and watch the children play.
F                G           C                Am
  Doing things I used to do,   they think are new,
F           F                 G     G
  I sit and watch as tears go by.
 
[Outro] (Repeat and Fade Out)
C                D              F         G
  Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.
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As Tears Go By – Marianne Faithfull
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9 comments
bucketomeat
RIP Sweet Lady 🥲
+2
Kraziekhat
Good job. Straight forward. Sorry, they won't let me rate it because I have a version of this song on the site. Otherwise I'd have given it a 5. KK.
+1
jhonbaker
Great job! The new album (Negative Capability) version has the same chord structures but is Capoed on the Fourth to put it in the key of E. Or, alternately, you can play it in E with no capo using the chords - E/F#/A/B/ - then the Am is now a C#m -
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