The Longer You Wait Chords

KeyF# Capo4st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays349

The Longer You Wait by Merle Haggard is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of F# with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords D, Em, A and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
F#
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16
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  			Tabbed By Larry Mofle 
[email protected] 
11/14/2004 
 
 
   
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    D                  Em 
The longer you wait to leave me 
    A                            D 
The longer I'll hurt when you?re gone 
        D                          Em 
And the longer it takes for you to break my heart 
    A                       D  
The longer the pain lingers on 

    G             A          D 
How long will you prolong my misery 
A                        D  
Wish I could leave on my own 
          D                  Em  
Cause the longer you wait to leave me 
    A                            D 
The longer I'll hurt when you?re gone 
 
Solo 
 
We both know that you never loved me 
I lied to myself from the start 
And we both know that some day you'll leave me 
And the knowing just tears me apart 
 
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).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante