Flow My Tears Chords
by John Dowland
Flow My Tears by John Dowland is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, C, B, G, Am and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em C B
Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!
Em G C Am Em
Exiled for ever, let me mourn;
D B C B
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
G C Em B Em Am Em
There let me live forlorn.....
Em D Am C B
Down vain lights, shine you no more!
Em G C B
No nights are dark enough for those
Em D C B
That in despair their lost fortunes deplore.
G C B Em Am Em
Light doth but shame disclose..
G Am D G
Never may my woes be relieved,
Em B Em
Since pity is fled;
Am C Em G D Am C Em
And tears and sighs and groans my weary days my weary days
C G Am C B
Of all joys have deprived.
G Am G
From the highest spire of contentment
Em B Em
My fortune is thrown;
Am C Em G D Am C Em
And fear and grief and pain for my deserts, for my deserts
Em C B G
Are my hopes, since hope is gone.
B C Em G Em Am
Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,
G Am B G D
Learn to condemn light.....
Em D Am Em D C B
Happy, happy they that in hell
G C B Em Am Em
Feel not the world's despite.