49 Bye-Byes Chords

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49 Bye-Byes by Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of B. It uses the chords B, Esus4, A, E, G#m, F#, F#7, C# and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Intro: B  Esus4  A  E  G#m 
 
B          Esus4   A        E 
Forty nine reasons all in a line 
B 	      Esus4     A   E       G#m 
All of them good ones all of them lies 
B                Esus4      A         E 
Driftin' with my lady we're oldest of friends 
B 	        Esus4            A   E      G#m 
Need a little work and there's fences to mend 
 
Chorus: 
B           Esus4 
Steady girl be my world (Steady girl) 
B                      Esus4 
'Till the drifter come now she's gone (Be my world) 
B             Esus4 
I let that man play his hand (Drifter come) 
B				    F# 
I let them go how was I to know? (Now you're gone) 
 			    F#7            B      Intro 
I'm down on my knees, nobody left to please 
 
Now it's over they left in the spring 
Her and the drifter looking for beautiful things 
 
{Instrumental (Electric Guitar and Organ)} 
 
Chorus+ 
B 
On my knees, Feeling wrong 
             F#    C#  E 
Mama's gone, oh ... 
 
B    G#m  F# 
Bye, bye baby (Bye, bye baby) 
A  E                      B 
Write if you think of it maybe 
B      G#m  F# 
Know I love you (Know I love you) 
A  E                      B 
Go if it means that much to you 
 
                 F#  
Hey, but you can run baby 
       E                 D                  A  sus4 
If the feeling's wrong before too long it's crazy 
           B                      A                          B 
And you're trapped, babe, and you know that's not where it's at, babe 
            A                       E         B  
You're just seein' things through a cat's eye, baby 
              A   B 
That's not my old lady 
            Esus4   B  
Come on and tell me baby 
            Esus4   B 
You better tell me baby 
       F# 
Who do you 
C#         E   
Who do you love? 
 
Time will tell us 
Who is trying to sell us 
Bye, bye baby (Bye, bye, bye, bye baby) 
Write if you think of it maybe 
 
Hey, but you can run baby... 
 
 
By José Duarte 
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Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante