If Ever I Would Leave You Chords
by Brook Benton
If Ever I Would Leave You by Brook Benton is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Fdim, Am7, Dm, D9, G, Dm7, C7M, Am, F, Dm5-/7, Cdim, G/B, C7, F7M, Em7, Dm7+, Gdim, E, C#m7, A, B7, G#, Bbm7, F#m7, G7, Fm, Am7+ and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C Fdim Am7 Dm D9 G Dm7 Fdim C7M Am
If ever I would leave you, it wouldn't be in summer
Dm F Dm5-/7 G Cdim G Am7 G/B C C7M C7
Seeing you in summer, I never would go
C7 F7M G G/B Em7 C7M Am
Your hair streaked with sunlight, your lips red as flame
F Dm Dm7+ Dm7 F Gdim Dm Dm7 G
Your face with a luster that puts gold to shame
C Fdim Am7 Dm D9 G Dm7 Fdim C7M Am
But if I'd ever leave you, it couldn't be in autumn
Dm F Dm5-/7 G Cdim G Am7 G/B C C7M C7
How I'd leave in autumn, I never will know
C7 F7M G G/B Em7 C7M Am
I've seen how you sparkle when fall nips the air
F Dm Dm7+ Dm7 F G C Dm7 G
I know you in autumn and I must be there
Bridge
E C#m7 A B7 E
And could I leave you running merrily through the snow
G# Bbm7 F#m7 B7 G7
Or on a wintry evening when you catch the fire's glow
C Em7 Am7 Dm D9 G Dm7 Fdim C7M Am
If ever I would leave you, how could it be in springtime
Dm F Dm5-/7 G Cdim G Am7 G/B C C7M C7
Knowing how in spring I'm bewitched by you so
C7 F7M Fm Fdim Am Am7+ D7
Oh, no, not in springtime, summer, winter, or fall
F D9 G7 Fdim C
No never could I leave you at all