I'm Leaving Now (with Merle Haggard) Chords

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I'm Leaving Now (with Merle Haggard) by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			D 
Hold on honey I'd like to say  
I'm busted out and breakin' away 
    G 
I'm lettin' you go like hot horse shoe 
                                    D 
I can't take another heartache from you 
Think about how its gonna be     
When you start back to needin' me 
          G 
When your dancin' shoes have lost their shine 
                      D 
I'm gonna be gone and I'm 
 
            G 
I'm Leaving Now 
            D 
I'm Leaving Now 
             A 
Get outta my face get and outta my place 
                                   D 
I'm Leaving Now adios I'm Leaving Now. 
 
D 
And the time will come when we'll trim the fat 
                            
Feed the kitchen scraps to the front seat cat 
G 
Bye bye baby when the bills come through 
                                        D 
You may have to give up with a jewel or two 
Eat your heart out, any way  
Its hot as your head and colder than clay 
    G 
Its all over now you don't have me 
                              D 
Your sugar daddy or you money tree. 
 
            G 
I'm Leaving Now 
            D 
I'm Leaving Now 
             A 
Get outta my space get and outta my face 
                                     D 
I'm Leaving Now hey hey, I'm Leaving Now. 
 
D G D A D 
 
D 
Pull up the collar on the travelin' coat 
Sell that miserable pleasure boat 
  G 
I wouldn't give a nickel for another buck 
         
                              D 
I'm livin' on muscle guts and luck 
If anybody asks were did I go 
Tell 'em I went where the wilders go 
  G 
I won't even have me an area code 
                                 D 
Don't have a number don't need a road. 
 
            G 
I'm Leaving Now (me too) 
            D 
I'm Leaving Now 
             A 
Get outta my face get and outta my space 
                                   D 
I'm Leaving Now adios I'm Leaving Now. 
 
D G D G D 
 
            G 
I'm Leaving Now  
            D 
I'm Leaving Now 
             A 
Get outta my space get and outta my face 
                                   D 
I'm Leaving Now adios I'm Leaving Now. 
 
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