Chords:
{t:Tears On My Pillow }
{artist:Johnny Nash & Ernie Smith}
{key:G}
Johnny Nash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4oqjQ3P1E (But in D)
Ernie Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2qDpZ7E58 (Capo on 2nd fret)
Thanks Steve Walton -- Numbers in {} count beats to pause
Intro: [G][G][Dm][Dm][G][G][Dm][Dm]
{c: }
I can't [G] take it {23}
I'm so [G7] lonesome {23}
Gee I [C] need you so, {34 123}
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I can't [A] take it {23}
When I [A7] wonder {23}
Why you [D] ever [D7] had to [D] go {234}
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But [G] baby,{234 1} [B7] every night I wake up [Em] crying [C] {234 12}
Tears on my [G] pillow
Pain in my [D] heart and you on my [G] mind {234} [D] {23}
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I re-[G] member, {23}
All those [G7] good times {23}
That we [C] had before, {34 123}
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I re-[A] member {23}
and my [A7] heart, {23}
my very [D] soul cries [D7] out for [D] more {234}
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So [G] baby,{234 1} [B7] all your love for me is [Em] dying [C] {234 12}
Tears on my [G] pillow
Pain in my [D7] heart and you on my [G] mind {234} [D] {23}
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Spoken:
No, I'll [G] always remember that day [G7] you promised to love me
You said you'd [C] love me to the very end, ooh ooh ooh [C]
[A] And I'll never forget the day when you walked out of [A7] my life
into the [D] arms of my [D7] very very best [D] friend
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Sung:
But [G] baby, {234 1} [B7] every night I wake up [Em] crying [C] {234 12}
Tears on my [G] pillow
Pain in my [D] heart and you on my [G] mind {Riff} [C] {2}
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Tears on my [G] pillow
Pain in my [D] heart and you on my [G] mind {Riff} [C] {2}
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Tears on my [G] pillow
Pain in my [D] heart
and you on my [G] mind {Riff} [C] [G] [G]
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{sot}
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A |---------|-----3-|
E |-3-3-2-1-|-0-3---|
{eot}
Riff only works with the Johnny Nash version
