Shelly's Winter Love Chords
Shelly's Winter Love by Merle Haggard is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, E, F, Bb and Eb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Chorus
A D A
I know I'm only Shelly's winter love
D A
She only seems to need me now and then
D A
I know I'm only Shelly's winter love
E A
But she's mine alone 'til springtime comes again
A D A
When springtime comes, I know that she'll be leaving
D A
When those friends of hers start calling her from town
D A
So I live in wait for Shelly's winter season
E A
When her troubled moments bring her back around
Chorus
A D A F
Steel solo
Bb Eb Bb
When Shelly's painted world turns cold and stormy
Eb Bb
It's then she finds the need to come around
Eb Bb
To these arms of mine she knows are always waiting
F Bb
But she'll leave when love has thawed the winter ground
Bb Eb Bb
I know I'm only Shelly's winter love
Eb Bb
She only seems to need me now and then
Eb Bb
I know I'm only Shelly's winter love
F Bb Eb Bb
But she's mine alone 'til springtime comes again