When I Come Back Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays475

When I Come Back by NQ Arbuckle is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, C, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Listen to the song for timing and it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out. 

verse 1 
G       D             C                     G          D    C 
Singing tunes by Jean Leloup, Jerusalem and La Bolduc  
G    D    C             G     D       C 
Read me - Red roses for me as I fall asleep tonight 
G       D           C                       G         D          C 
Will you miss me - will you miss me when I'm gone - I only care a little 
G     D                C                     G         D    C 
Can I bring you something back from heaven or hell - just let me know 
Em      D          C                      G                             D       C 
Wake me up ' you're always waking me up ' why don't you let me sleep tonight  
Em      D      C                                Am         C 
I can take my whole self for granted -  Honey  hold tight  

           G     D              C 
When I come back 'I'll be an iceberg 
           G     D        Em        C 
When I come back I'll be a bottle of wine 
G          D              C 
Sometimes I don't feel anything  
G          D                C 
Sometimes I feel everything at the same time 

Break    G  D  C   x2 

verse 2 
G     D        C                     G      D      C 
Meet me at the bar at the end of my street around eleven   
G       D             C                                    G        D        C 
Girl  friend you're  lighting your cigarette from the wrong end again and again 
Em          D           C                               G       D    C 
Please don't wish me to change but don't let me stay the same   
Em          D               C 
Please just come and pick me up cuz I never know  
Am          C              Am         C 
what to say ' I never know what to say  

           G     D              C 
When I come back 'I'll be an iceberg 
           G     D        Em        C 
When I come back I'll be a bottle of wine 
G          D              C 
Sometimes I don't feel anything  
G          D                C 
Sometimes I feel everything at the same time 

Break    G  D  C   x2 

verse 3 
G           D          C                              G          D    C 
All this to say that I haven't a fucking clue what I'm doing     
G         D             C                     G          D    C 
And I miss you when you're gone but it'd kill me to call  
Em    D   C           G     D       C 
Read me red roses for me as I fall asleep.  
Em      D        C 
And I'LL take my whole self for granted when  
Am                   C             Am                 C 
I wake up in the morning oh when I wake up in the morning 

 
           G     D              C 
When I come back 'I'll be an iceberg 
           G     D        Em        C 
When I come back I'll be a bottle of wine 
G          D              C 
Sometimes I don't feel anything  
G          D                C 
Sometimes I feel everything at the same time 


           G     D              C 
When I come back 'I'll be an iceberg 
           G     D        Em        C 
When I come back I'll be a bottle of wine 
G          D              C 
Sometimes I don't feel anything  
G          D                C 
Sometimes I feel everything at the same time 

Ending    G  D  C   x2 
    	

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