Don't Make Me Go Chords

KeyA Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays339

Don't Make Me Go by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of A with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords A, D, E 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
Speed
  			 
 
 
A                             D 
You take my hand and smile at me 
          A                 E 
But I can tell you'd rather be 
 D                E             A 
Alone or with somebody else you know 
    A                        D 
And when your eyes look into mine 
     A                           E 
That old time love light doesn't shine 
    D           E                   A 
But let me try again, don't make me go 
 
       D 
I want you, don't make me go 
               A 
My heart would break, I'd miss you so 
        E                            A   A7 
Tradin' love for sympathy, is old to me 
            D 
What's this lovesick heart to do 
        A 
When it cries for only you 
        E                                   A  
Hold me close, I love you so, don't make me go 
 
 
Guitar Solo 
 
 
I'm sorry that I never knew 
The way to show my love to you 
I took too much for granted all the time 
Two hearts in love must give and take 
When one heart fails the other breaks 
So turn me loose cause I cant call you mine 
 
Chorus 
    	

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