As Tears Go By Chords
by Marianne Faithfull51,106 views, added to favorites 2,102 times
Difficulty: | beginner |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Key: | C |
Capo: | no capo |
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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

RIP Sweet Lady 🥲
+2

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

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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