Been A Long Time Leaving Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays539

Been A Long Time Leaving by Waylon Jennings is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, C and A7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
Text
16
Speed
  			Time: 3/4 
 
D / / 2 / / 3 / / 4 / / 5 / / 6 / / 
I've been a fool, I've been a foo-hoo-ooool 
G                            D 
Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong 
A                     G                 C             D 
I've been a long time leavin', but I'll be a long time-- gone 
 
Verse 2: 
I loved you so oh oh oh much, I loved you so mu-u-uuuch 
I stayed around when I should've moved along 
I've been a long time leavin', but I'll be a long time gone 
A 
Hello high life, hello highway 
Here come a big old semi my way 
G 
Stick up my thumb, hear the truck come 
D 
Trees goin' by, lookin' like a fly 
A 
On my big legs are my Levi's 
G                A7 / / 2 / 
 Woo woo woo woo 
            D 
I've been a fool, I've been a foo-hoo-ooool 
G                            D 
Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong 
A                     G                 C             D 
I've been a long time leavin', but I'll be a long time-- gone 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    	

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.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante