If you leave me tonight I’ll cry    (video)

 

                 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)