If you leave me tonight I’ll cry
C G7 C - F- C
(If you leave, take my heart,
take my heart)
G
C
1. If you leave me tonight I will cry,
G C - C7
though
you say we will soon meet again.
F G
C
For the hours I've spent here
with you
G C - F - C
are
like words from a poet's pen.
C G C
Words like love, and truth, and goodness,
C F
C G - G7
words like “Till death us do part.
C C7 F
I will never love another,
C G C
take my heart, take my heart, take
my heart !
(orig. moves up half a note to capo 1st here)
G
+ (Take my heart) + G - C
- G - C - C7
F G C
+ If the hours I've
spent here with you
G C - F - C
are
like words from a poet's pen.
F C
+ CHORUS +
Take my heart !
F C G F C
+ Take my heart, take my
heart, take my heart ! (Take my heart)
(Jerry Wallace)