If You Go Away
Glen Campbell
Album Wichita Lineman 1968
written by Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen
Intro Cm
Cm
If you go away on this summer day
Fm
then you might as well take the sun away
Bb7
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
D#
When our love was new and our hearts were high
Fm G
When the day was young and the nights were long
Cm Fm
And the moon stood still to the night bird's song
G# G Cm
If you go away if you go away if you go away
Cm
But if you stay I'll make you a day
Cm7 G Cm
like no day has been or will be again
Cm7 G#
We'll sail the sun we'll glide on the rain
Bb7 D#
we'll talk to the trees and worship the wind
G Cm C#
But if you go I'll understand
Fm G Cm
leave me just enough love to fill my hand
D# Fm G Fm G
If you go away if you go away if you go away
Cm
If you go away as I know you will
Fm
you must tell the world to stop turning
Bb7
Till you return again if you ever do
D#
for what good is love without loving you
Fm G
Can I tell you now as you turn to go
Cm D#
I'll be dying slowly till the next hello
G# G Cm G#7sus4 G#7
If you go away if you go away if you go away
C#m C#m7
If you go away as I know you must
A
there'll be nothing left in this world to trust
B B7
Just an empty room full of empty space
E
like the empty look I see on your face
F#m G#
I'd have been the shadow of your shadow
C#m E
If I thought it might have kept me by your side
A G# C#m
If you go away if you go away if you go away
C#m C#m7
But if you stay I'll make you a night
G# C#m
like no night has been or will be again
C#m7 C#m A
I'll sail on your smile I'll glide on your touch
B E G#m
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much
C#m D F#m
But if you go I will cry till the good is gone
G# C#m
from the words goodbye
E F#m G#
If you go away if you go away if you go away
C#m B C#m A C#
please don't go away
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God Bless Glen Travis Campbell
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