Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart Chords

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Don't Trade Your Old Fashioned Sweetheart by Ernest Tubb is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, G7, C, D7 and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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G             G7                C 
Take away the bright lights and music  

     G                   D7 
Take away the powder and pain 

    G                  G7         C 
And you'll find that a honky tonk angel 
  
      G                 D7          G 
Can't compare with your home lovin' saint 


      D7                 C                   G 
She's just another woman who'll never make a home 

      A7                                     D7 
She's had sweethearts before you she'll have others when you're gone 

      G                               G7                 C 
Don't trade one who loves you for the bright lights that gleam 

                               G                D7         G 
Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart for a honky tonk queen 


                      G7          C 
She'll lie and she'll cry on your shoulder 
  
    G                        D7 
And she'll speak of a broken romance 

       G               G7              C 
She'll say that things might have been different 
  
     G        D7           G 
Take pity but don't take a chance 


      D7                     C                    G 
Don't take a cheap imitation when you have a real pearl 

      A7                               D7 
Don't take this hard hearted woman for your old fashioned girl 

      G                               G7                 C 
Don't trade one who loves you for the bright lights that gleam 

                               G                D7         G 
Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart for a honky tonk queen 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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