There Goes My Everything Chords

KeyA CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays433

There Goes My Everything by Elvis Presley is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, E7 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
A
Text
16
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I hear (A)footsteps (D)slowly (A)walking, 
as they gently walk a(E7)cross a lonely (A)floor. 
(E7)And a (A)voice is (D)softly (A)saying: 
"Darling this will be good(E7)bye for ever(A)more." 
 
(A)There goes my (E7)reason for (A)liv(E7) - (A)ing,(A7) 
(D)there goes the (E7)one of my (A)dreams.(E7) 
(A)There goes my (A7)only pos(D)session, 
(A)there goes my (E7)ev'ry(A)thing.(E7) 
 
As my (A)mem'ry (D)turns back the (A)pages, 
I can see the happy (E7)years we had be(A)fore. 
(E7)Now the (A)love that (D)kept this old heart (A)beating 
has been shattered by the (E7)closing

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante