I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays501

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Pat The Bunny Schneeweis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, C, G, Am7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Am
Text
16
Speed
  			
Intro 
Am C Am G (2x) Am 

He also plays Am7 before changing from Am to other chords in the intro 

Verse  
(most downstrokes are muted) 

Am 
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill 
                         Am (not muted) 
He seems too blue to fly 
     C                  Am 
The midnight train is whining low 
                G        Am 
I'm so lonesome I could cry 

Am 
I've never known a night so long 
                          Am (not muted) 
The time it's crawling by 
     C                 Am 
The moon has ducked behind a cloud 
              G        Am (not muted) 
To hang it's head and cry 

Break 

(Again Am7 before changing) 
Am F Am G 
Am C Am G 
Am 


Verse  

Am 
Have you ever seen the robin weep 
                       Am (not muted) 
As leaves begin to die? 
      C                    Am 
That means, he's lost the will to live 
                G        Am  (no more muting after that G) 
I'm so lonesome I could cry 

Am 
And the silence of a falling star 
                       Am7 Am 
Lights up a purple sky 
    C             Am 
And as I wonder where you are 
                G        Am 
I'm so lonesome I could cry  

        Am      G        Am  (one stroke each) 
I'm so lonesome I could cry 
    	

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