He’ll have to go    (video)    (midi)

 

    C - G - C - G

 

                       C                      F                    C

1. Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone,

                                                               G       - G7

    let’s pretend that we're together all alone.

                       C                    C7                          F

    I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low,

                         C                                G                              C     - G

    and you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go.

 

                   C                     F                        C

2. Whisper to me, tell me, do you love me true,

                                                     G     - G7

    or is he holding you the way I do ?

                               C                            C7                        F

    Though love is blind make up your mind, I've got to know,

                   C                            G                             C     - C7

    should I hang up or will you tell him he'll have to go ?   

 

                      F                                                               C

    You can't say the words I want to hear while you're with another man,

                   F                                                    C                  G

    do you want me answer “yes or no”, darling I will understand.

 

                       C                      F                    C

3. Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone,

                                                               G       - G7

    let’s pretend that we're together all alone.

                       C                    C7                          F

    I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low,

                         C                                G                    G7        C   

    and you can tell your friend there with you - he'll have to go.

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Jim Reeves)