Let Me Down Easy Chords

KeyAb CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays367

Let Me Down Easy by Johnny Cash is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Ab. It uses the chords Ab, Fm, Eb, Db, Bb and Bbm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Ab
Text
16
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Intro: Ab Fm Ab Eb Ab 

#1. 
Ab                Eb          Ab 
Let me down easy, if you must go.  
Ab 
Why not deceive me, it won't hurt  
   Eb 
me so. 
Db                             Ab 
Truth is so painful, tell me a lie.  
            Eb                 Ab 
Let me down easy, and I'll get by. 

#2. 
Ab          Db                   Ab 
Let me down easy, for old time's sake. 
          Eb      Bb 
Is it too much to ask, when my heart's  
      Eb 
gonna break? 
             Ab 
I'm bound to lose you, I'm bound to  
Db 
cry. 
                Ab   Eb           Ab 
Oh, let me down easy and I'll get by. 


INTERLUDE: Db Ab Eb Bbm Ab 


#3. 
Ab          Db                   Ab 
Let me down easy, for old time's sake. 
          Eb      Bb 
Is it too much to ask, when my heart's  
      Eb 
gonna break? 
             Ab 
I'm bound to lose you, I'm bound to  
Db 
cry. 
                Ab   Eb           Ab 
Oh, let me down easy and I'll get by. 


OUTRO: Eb Ab  
    	

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