The Best of my Love Chords
by Eagles
The Best of my Love by Eagles is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Dm9, Em7, Dm7, F/G, G, Dm6/F, G7/D, G7, Em, F/D, Cmaj7, Fm7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
C Dm9
C Dm9
C C Dm9 Dm9
Every night, I'm lying in bed, holding you close in my dreams
C C Dm9 Dm9
Thinking about all the things that we said, and coming apart at the seams
Em7 Dm7 Em7 F/G
We try to talk it over, but the words come out too rough
C Dm7 C G Dm6/F G7/D
I know you were trying to give me the best of your love
C C Dm9 Dm9
Beautiful faces, and loud empty places, look at the way that we live
C C Dm9 Dm9
Wasting our time on cheap talk and wine, left us so little to give
Em7 Em7 Dm7 G7
That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud that we could never rise above
C Dm9 C G Dm6/F
But here in my heart, I give you the best of my love
Em G7/D C F/D
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
Cmaj7 F/D
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
Fm7 Fm7 Cmaj7
I'm going back in time and it's a sweet thing
Fm7 Dm7 G7
It was a quiet night and I would be all right if I could go on sleeping
C Dm9
But every morning I wake up and worry, what's gonna happen today?
C Dm9
You see it your way, and I see it mine, but we both see it slipping away
Em7 Dm7 Em7 Dm7 G7
You know we always had each other baby, I guess that wasn't enough; o-o-ohh
C Dm9 C G Dm6/F
But here in my heart, I give you the best of my love
Em G7/D C F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
Cmaj7 F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
C F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', every night and day, you get the best of my love
Cmaj7 F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
Begin fade
C F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
Cmaj7 F
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love
C
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin'.........
= Bass plays note to the right of slash