Even A Fool Learns To Love Chords
by David Bowie
Even A Fool Learns To Love by David Bowie is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of F. It uses the chords F, Am/E, Cm/Eb, D7, D7sus4, Gm, Gm/F, C7/E, F4, F/C, Fmaj7, Cm7/F, F7, Bb, Bbm6, C, C7, Am, Bbmaj7, Am7, Gm7, C/Bb, Dm and Dm7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Verso 1
F Am/E
There was a time, a happy time,
Cm/Eb D7
I took my heart ...to every party,
D7sus4 Gm Gm/F
They'd point my way, "How are you to - day?"
C7/E F4 F
"Will you make us laugh, chase our blues a - way?"
F/C F Fmaj7 Cm7/F F7
Their funny man ....won't let them down,
Bb Bbm6
No, I'd dance and prance, and be their clown,
F/C C C7 Gm/F F
That time, a happy time, that even a fool--- learns to love!
Verso 2
F Am/E
The clown ...turned a - round,
Cm/Eb D7 D7sus4
And saw her smile, ...oh, how she loved me,
Gm Gm/F
She'd clap her hands, and beg me stay,
C7/E F4 F
To make her laugh, to make her life gay,
F/C F Fmaj7 Cm7/F F7
Who wants the love ...of all the world,
Bb Bbm6
When here was love in the eyes of just one girl?
F/C C C7 Gm/F F
That day, that precious day, when even a fool--- learns to love!
Verso 3
Am C7 F Fmaj7 Cm7/F
But, oh, how I dreamed, a marvelous dream,
F7 Bb Bbmaj7 Bb
Where all of the heavens, or so it had seemed,
Am7 Gm7 C
With thunderous ap - plause, looked down from a - bove,
C/Bb Am Am7 Dm Dm7
On a clown and an angel so much in love,
Gm7 C
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream,
C7 Gm/F F
And even a fool---- learns to love!
Verso 4
F Am/E
That day, ...that hateful day,
Cm/Eb D7 D7sus4
The joke turned stale, ...the game was over,
Gm Gm/F
Those spiteful words, "Oh, go a - way!
C7/E F4 F
Who wants to play? It's getting late now!"
F/C F Fmaj7 Cm7/F F7
My world, ...my funny world,
Bb Bbm6
Had lost its mask, and shown a broken heart,
F/C C C7 Gm/F F
A time, a sour time, when even a fool---- learns to love!
Verso 5
Am C7 F Fmaj7 Cm7/F
But, oh, how I dreamed, a marvelous dream,
F7 Bb Bbmaj7 Bb
Where all of the heavens, or so it had seemed,
Am7 Gm7 C
With thunderous ap - plause, looked down from a - bove,
C/Bb Am Am7 Dm Dm7
On a clown and an angel so much in love,
Gm7 C
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream,
C7 Gm/F F
And even a fool---- learns to love!
Coda
F7 Gm7 C
||: With thunderous ap - plause, looked down from a - bove,
C/Bb Am Am7 Dm Dm7
On a clown and an angel so much in love,
Gm7 C
I'll stay with my dream, it takes such a dream,
C7 Gm/F F
And even a fool---- learns to love! :|| Repeat