Last Thing On My Mind Chords

by Tom Paxton
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: G
Capo: no capo
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C
D
D7

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Last Thing On My Mind chords
Tom Paxton 1964  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Thing_on_My_Mind
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Thing_on_My_Mind
 
Open or Capo I*
 
G C G  C G  D  G
 
       G          C            G
It's a lesson too late for the learnin',
C       G   D         G
made of sand, made of sand
                  C              G
In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin',
C       G   D         G
in your hand, in your hand.
 
        D                  C           G
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
           C        G            D    D7
will there be not a trace left behind?
        G                    C
Well, I could have loved you better,
       G
didn't mean to be unkind;
    D                 D7               G
you know that was the last thing on my mind.
 
           G         C          G
You've got reasons a-plenty for goin',
C      G   D        G
this I know, this I know.
                        C        G
For the weeds have been steadily growin',
C            G  D             G
please don't go, please don't go.
 
        D                  C           G
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
           C        G            D    D7
will there be not a trace left behind?
        G                    C
Well, I could have loved you better,
       G
didn't mean to be unkind;
    D                 D7               G
you know that was the last thing on my mind.
 
                  C             G
As we walk on, my thoughts keep tumblin',
C         G    D           G
round and round, round and round
                        C       G
Underneath our feet the subways rumblin',
C    G     D      G
underground, underground
 
        D                  C           G
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
           C        G            D    D7
will there be not a trace left behind?
        G                    C
Well, I could have loved you better,
       G
didn't mean to be unkind;
    D                 D7               G
you know that was the last thing on my mind.
 
               C          G
As I lie in my bed in the mornin',
C       G  D         G
without you, without you.
                 C             G
Every song in my breast lies a bornin',
C       G  D         G
without you, without you.
 
        D                  C           G
Are you going away with no word of farewell,
           C        G            D    D7
will there be not a trace left behind?
        G                    C
Well, I could have loved you better,
       G
didn't mean to be unkind;
    D                 D7               G
you know that was the last thing on my mind.
 
* Paxton used a capo in later performances
 
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21 comments
TerranceMcC
A mistake in one word of lyrics: "lies a bornin'" should be "dies a bornin,'" according to Tom Paxton's own video with Tom Clancy on YouTube. 'dies a bornin' makes sense; his songs die before they're born because his lover left.)
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snowhollow
This song really hits close to the heart.
+1
aidan.n.morris
it's actually capoed on 2
+1