Just Call Me Lonesome Chords

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Just Call Me Lonesome by Elvis Presley is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, D7, G7, C, F#, E, A, A7 and E7. 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: Play Instrumentally Over The Phrase Below 
  
G      D        D7               G 
....Just call me lonesome from now one 
 
 
VERSE ONE / VOCALS 
 
G          G7               C 
Why must I love a heartless one 
G         G7                   G 
Who never knows the harm she's done 
G              G7                  C  
Though love is blind I should have known 
     D        D7               G 
Just call me lonesome from now on 
  
 
VERSE TWO / VOCALS 
 
G           G7              C 
I climb the stairs up to my room 
    D       D7             G 
But no-one greets me in my gloom 
G           G7              C 
The silence tells me she is gone 
     D        D7               G 
Just call me lonesome from now on 
 
 
INSTRUMENTAL : PLAY OVER LINES BELOW 
  
G           G7              C 
The silence tells me she is gone   (walk down) 
     D        D7               G    G - F# E  
Just call me lonesome from now on 
 
 
KEY OF “A” 
VERSE THREE 
 
       A         A7             D 
These walls will hide me when I cry 
  E         E7             A 
I hope that heaven lets me die 
A            A7                 D  
What good is life when hope has gone 
     E        E7               A 
Just call me lonesome from now on 
 
 
VERSE FOUR (ALT)  
 
   A        A7           D 
I pray...my memories at last 
     E    E7               A 
will fade into the distant past 
   A      A7             D 
If I must live and love alone 
     E       E7                A 
Just call me lonesome from now on. 
 
TAGG 
 
     E        E7               A 
Just call me lonesome from now on. 
 
 

    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante