Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye Chords

KeyBm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays424

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye by Johnny Rivers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bm. It uses the chords Bm, G, Am, D7, Em and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Bm
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro: Bm G Bm Am D7 Bm 


G            Em            Am      Bm 
Kiss me each morning for a million years. 
G            Em              Am   D7 Bm 
Hold me each evening at your side. 
G              Em            Am            D7 
Tell me you'll love me for a million years. 
G                C 
Then if it don't work out, 
G                C 
Then if it don't work out, 
G            C       Am      Bm 
Then you can tell me goodbye. 
G          Em            Am      D7    Bm 
Sweeten my coffee with a morning kiss. 
G         Em               Am    D7 
Soften my dreams with your sighs. 
G              Em            Am      D7 
Tell me you'll love me for a million years. 
G                C 
Then if it don't work out, 
G                C 
Then if it don't work out, 
G            C       Am 
Then you can tell me goodbye. 

 
G Em Am D7 Bm G Em Am D7 G Em Am D7 Bm 
 
C                   G 
If you must go, oh, no, I won't grieve, 
Am                     D7         Bm 
If you wait a lifetime before you leave. 
G           Em  Am                      D7 
If you must go, mmmmm, I won't tell you no, 

G            Em            Am     D7 Bm 
Just so that we can say we tried. 
G              Em            Am      Bm 
Tell me you'll love me for a million years. 
     G           C 
 if it don't work out. 

 if it .............. 

Then if it don't work out. 

Then you can tell me goodbye. 
    	

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