You Pass Me By Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays467

You Pass Me By by Hank Snow is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, C7, F, G7, D7 and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Words and music by Hank Snow and Eddie Nesbitt 
Submitted by Paul Enockson 
 
You Pass Me By 
 
                     C                                 C7             F 
You Pass Me By, and you don't even stop to say hello 
G7                                                       C 
C 
Don't know why--- I've learned to love you so.  Each night it seams 
                              C7                F                       G7 
I hear you say your love will never die, I wake from dreams, 
                      C 
You Pass Me By. 
 
          C7       F                                 C 
When you are lonely, some day you'll learn 
        D7                                             G            D7 
G 
Just what it means to live in dreams of love that's unreturned. 
G7          C                                          C7 
F 
A love so sweet,  that vanished with the sunshine in the sky, 
                     G7                         C 
Each time we meet, You Pass Me By. 
 
                     C                                 C7 
F 
You Pass Me By, and now I know my hopes are all in vain 
G7                                                     C 
Here I am on memory lane.  I hope and pray 
                  C7                                F                     G7 
the one you love will never make you cry --- then turn away 
                      C 
and pass you by. 
 
   C7          F                               C 
I keep your memory locked in my heart, 
      D7                                        G       D7           G 
For ever there to help me bear the lonely tears that start. 
   G7            C                                  C7                F 
I might have known our love was only meant to be a lie, 
                     G7                         C 
Oh heart of stone, You Pass Me By. 
 
Enjoy! Paul 
    	

Chord diagrams

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