Take Me Back (Leave Me There)
Recorded by Cody Johnson
Album: Single (2026)

(Capo on 1)

(Intro.)
|(Em) /(G)  / |(C) /(G)  / |(Em) /(G)  / |(C) /(G)  / |

(Verse 1)
(Em) Turn the page from (G)summer to fall (C)
Been a (C)while since I knew (Em)you were waiting (G)up for my call (C)
Well, to-(C)night, I'm lonely, (Em)can't sleep and I'm (G)climbing the walls (C)
And all I (G)want is red (Am)wine on the night stand
(Am) In the after-(Am)glow of a slow dance

(Chorus)
(NC) Yeah, baby, (Em)take me (G)back and (C)leave me there
Your (Em)blue jeans (G)hanging off of your (C)bedroom (G)chair
(Em)Sun coming through the (G)blinds and (C)hands running through your (G)hair, baby
(Em)Take me (G)back and (C)leave me there, yeah

(Instrumental)
|(Em) /(G)  / (C) /(G)  /

(Verse 2)
(Em) You don't have to (G)make promises (C)
You don't (G)have to go and (Em)take back that good-(G)bye that you said (C)
You can (G)move on like a (Em)southbound (G)Greyhound bus (C)
(G)Just lay me (Am)down in that memory of us, oh, woah, oh

(Chorus)
(Em)Take me (G)back and (C)leave me (G)there
Your (Em)blue jeans (G)hanging off of your (C)bedroom (G)chair
(Em)Sun coming through the (G)blinds
And (C)hands running through your (G)hair, baby
(Em)Take me (G)back and (C)leave me there (Em) /(G)  / (C) /(G)  /
Just (Em)leave me (G)there  (C) /(G)

(Bridge)
(C)There, where we made love, (Bm)after we made up
Red (Am)wine on the nightstand, in the after-(C)glow of a slow dance

(Chorus)
(NC)Yeah, baby, (Em)take me (G)back and (C)leave me (G)there
Your (Em)blue jeans (G)hanging off of your (C)bedroom (G)chair
(Em)Sun coming through the (G)blinds
And (C)hands running through your (G)hair, baby
(Em)Take me (G)back and (C)leave me there / / (Em) /(G)  / (C) /(G)  /
Just (Em)leave me (G)there (C) (G)

(Outro.)
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