Don’t give up on me    (video)

 

    D - Em - D - G - D - A (2x)  +  D

 

     D                                               D7                       G

1.      Every night‘s a lonely night since you went away,

             D                                                            A     - A7

    but you come back to me to haunt my memory,

D                                                       D7                 G

    I lie awake and think of you and how it used to be,

     D                   A                        D

    oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 

     D                                                          D7                   G

2.     The symbol of the moon above and living without you,

    D                                       A     - A7

    I can‘t stand this cold reality.

D                                                      D7                               G

    You alone can make me whole, our love was meant to be,

     D                   A                       D

    oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 

A7                                             D

    In the dying embers of the midnight hour,

 G                                                 D

all these things brought me misery,

A7                                            Bm                  - G

    in the dying embers of the midnight hour,

 D                   A                        D

oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 

    D                                                      D7                 G

3.      When you left, I know I lost the better part of me,

          D                                               A    - A7

    but I can‘t blame my troubled history.

D                                            D7                               G 

    You and I were innocent, our love was meant to be,

     D                   A                       D

    oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 

+   CHORUS         +  D - Em - D - G - D - Bm - A - D

 

     D                                                   D7                      G

4.      Jesus came into this world, so all men may be found,

    D                                    A     - A7

    in the soul of all humanity.

D                                               D7                G

    Everytime I stumble on the road to Calvary,

     D                    A                      D

    oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 

A7                                             D

    In the dying embers of the midnight hour,

 G                                                 D

all these things brought me misery,

A7                                            Bm                  - G

    in the dying embers of the midnight hour,

 D                   A                      Bm   - G

oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 D                   A                      Bm   - G

oh, my love, don‘t give up on me.

 D                        A                      D

my sweet love, don‘t give up on me.

 

+  D - Em - D - G - D - A        +  D - Em - D - G - D - G - A - D

 

+  D - G - D - G (3x)

 

     D                                             G  

+  Oh, my love, don‘t give up on me ! (11x)

 

    (Gerry Rafferty)