When You Went Away Chords

KeyE CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays382

When You Went Away by Ryan McCartan is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, B and F#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
E
Text
16
Speed
  			verse 1 
E                     A               B 
Baby's got a way, she tends to exaggerate 
E                       A                B 
Baby's got a way to make lemons from lemonade 
E                    A                 B 
Maybe it's all my fault, I'm the one to blame 
E                             A 
But when you say that you can't stay I just go insane 

Pre-Chorus 
           E           A 
There you go walking down the street 
            F#m                             A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
        E              A 
I said stop, but you turned to leave 
           F#m                               A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 

Chorus 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
B                                  A 
You went away and almost killed me baby. 

verse 2 
E                        A            B 
Black and white baby, no need to speculate 
E                        A            B 
Who's to say lately mars ain't in retrograde(mm mm) 
B                                     A 
I'm not going nowhere so please don't take yourself away 
E                     A 
Where we go, where we go from here, it's too early to be too late. 

Pre-Chorus 
           E           A 
There you go walking down the street 
            F#m                             A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
        E              A 
I said stop, but you turned to leave 
           F#m                               A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 


Chorus 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
E                             A 
When you went away it almost killed me, killed me 
          E           A                         F#m                              A 
There you go walking down the street not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
          E            A 
I said stop, but you turned to leave 
          F#m                               A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
          E           A                         F#m                              A 
There you go walking down the street not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
          E            A 
I said stop, but you turned to leave 
          F#m                               A 
not even knowing what you're doing when you do it to me 
    	

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