Wear my ring around your neck     (video)

 

   G - C - C

 

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1. Won‘t you wear my ring up around your neck

                                                    G7

    to tell the world, I‘m yours by heck.

                     C                         F

    Let them see your love for me,

                           C              G                          C

    and let them see by the ring around your neck.

 

     - - - - - - - - - - - - -    C

2. Won‘t you wear my ring up around your neck

                                                    G7

    to tell the world, I‘m yours by heck.

                        C                   F

    Let them know I love you so,

                              C             G                          C

    and let them know by the ring around your neck.

 

                       F                                    C

+  Well, they say that going steady is not the proper thing,

              F                                                           C

    they say that we‘re too young to know the meaning of a ring.

       F                                         C

    I only know I love you and that you love me, too,

            D7                                       G7

    so, darling, this is what I ask of you :

 

     - - - - - - - - - - - - -    C

3. Won‘t you wear my ring up around your neck

                                                    G7

    to tell the world, I‘m yours by heck.

                     C                        F

    Let them see your love for me,

                           C              G                          C

    and let them see by the ring around your neck.

 

                       F                                    C

+  Well, they say that going steady is not the proper thing,

              F                                                           C

    they say that we‘re too young to know the meaning of a ring.

       F                                        C

    I only know I love you and that you love me, too,

            D7                                       G7

    so, darling, this is what I ask of you :

 

     - - - - - - - - - - - - -    C

4. Won‘t you wear my ring up around your neck

                                                    G7

    to tell the world, I‘m yours by heck.

                        C                   F

    Let them know I love you so,

                              C             G                          C

    and let them know by the ring around your neck !

                            G                                            C

    And let them know by the ring around your neck !

                             G                                           C

    And let them know by the ring around your neck !

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (Elvis Presley)