Why When Love Is Gone Chords

KeyBbm Capo1st fret TuningStandard Difficulty Plays542

Why When Love Is Gone by The Isley Brothers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Bbm with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords Bbm, Am, C, Em, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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 fret, song in Bbm, for "the isley brothers",  
No capo, song in Am, for "the revelations". 


Intro and Chorus guitar line, standard tuning : 

  C             Em              Am            F 
|-------------|---------------|-------------|-------------| 
|-------------|---------------|-------------|-------------| 
|-------------|-------------0-|-2---2-------|-------------| 
|-----------0-|-2---2---2-3---|---------0---|-----3---2-0-| 
|-3-0---0-3---|---------------|---0---0---3-|-------------| 
|-----3-------|---0---0-------|-------------|-1-1---1-----| 



1. 
      C            Am 
Your love made a slave of me 
         Em                      Am 
but the love you gave, you took away from me. 
  C             Am 
Foolishly, I believed in you. 
        Em                   Am 
What a fool I was, thinking love was true. 

 F                      Am 
Selfishly you broke my heart. 
     G                     Am 
You really had me fooling from the start. 
  F                      Am 
Still I have just one regret : 
    G                    Am 
although you're gone, I can't forget. 

 C                    Em 
Why when the love is gone, 
 Am                     F 
why does my heart keep holding on ? 
    C                    Em 
Oh why when the love is gone, 
         Am                     F 
Tell me why does my heart keep holding on ? 


2. 
      C                      Am 
Your love was sweet when it started 
           Em                       Am 
but now I find it leaves me broken hearted. 
 C                          Am 
Why do you swear to always care 
     Em                     Am 
then walk away and leave me in despair ? 

 F 
Selfishly ... 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante