The Last Letter Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays580

The Last Letter by Jack Greene is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7, C7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
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C                                       G7 
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend 

                                                  C 
What have I done that's made you so different and cold 

                                C7        F 
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again 

G7                                             C 
Or will you be happy when you are withered and old 

  
                                            G7 
I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine 

                                                    C 
And I cannot offer you clothes that your young body craves 

                                   C7         F 
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine 

G7                                                           C 
Just think of the heartaches the tears and the sorrow you'll save 

  
                                              G7 
When you are weary and tired of another man's gold 

                                                C 
And when you get lonely remember this letter my own 

                                             C7      F 
But don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold 

G7                                               C 
If you don't love me then why don't you leave me alone 

  
                                           G7 
As I am writing this letter I think of the past 

                                             C 
And of the promises that you are breaking so free 

                                       C7          F 
But to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last 

G7                                                 C 
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante