Song title: If I Lost You Now
Original Album: Year Of The Wolf
Words and Music by Nerina Pallot
Copyright 2011 Polydor Ltd/Geffen Records (UK)
Published by Geffen Records (UK)
Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)
NOTES:
This is another gorgeous song that you might want to play for a loved one at
an appropriate moment. The song seems to be in Low Tune i.e. a semi-tone lower
than standard (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) so, if you want to play along you're going
to have to re-tune or transpose. Chords below are for standard tuning.
VERSE:
Chords:
A x02220 E7 779797 or x767xx
C#m7 x46454 C x32010
F#m 244222 E 022100
Dmaj7 xx0222 or 557675 Esus4 022200
B797777AC#m7F#m
If I lost you now, would I cry,
Dmaj7C#m7Dmaj7Bm7E7
And hang my head forlorn and sad?
AC#m7F#m
Would I greet each day in silence
Dmaj7C#m7Dmaj7C#m7
And wipe each tear, each hopeless hope,
Dmaj7C#m7CEEsus4
Wordlessly away until I slip into shadow?
BRIDGE:
Notes:
The chords on the last line are picked thus:
AAEEsus4
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|------2---------2---------2---------1----|
|----2---------2---------0---------2---2--|
|--0-----0---3-----3---2-----2------------|
|--------------------------------0--------|
Chords:
Dmaj7 xx0222 or 557675 C#m7 446454
E 022100 A x02220
F#m7 242222 Am x322xx
F#7 242322 E7sus4 020200
Dmaj7EF#m7
If I lost you now, would I be sorry?
Dmaj7EF#m7F#7
Would I slowly stumble on somehow?
Dmaj7EC#m7F#7
Would I hide my eyes from this lonely life
Dmaj7EAE7sus4
If I lost you now?
(repeat picked chords: A Am E7sus4 E)
VERSE:
AC#m7F#m
Would the world go on regardless
Dmaj7C#m7Dmaj7Bm7E7
And foreign runes of time pursued?
AC#m7F#m
Love is his name and ever shall be
Dmaj7C#m7Dmaj7C#m7
How could they know what I let go?
Dmaj7C#m7CEEsus4
I'd beg the bitter end of days to swallow me whole.
CODA:
Chords:
A x02220 Am x322xx
E 022100 F#m7 242222
F#m 244222 Bm797777
Dmaj7 xx0222 or 557675 C x32010
C#m7 446454 E7sus4 020200
F242322AEF#m
If I lost you now, would I be sorry?
Dmaj7EC#m7
Would I slowly stumble on somehow?
Dmaj7EC#m7F#7
Would I hide my eyes from this lonely life
Dmaj7AmC#m7F#m7Bm7E
If I lost you no - ow - ow?
C#m7F#m7Bm7E
If I lo - o - o - ost you now?
(play: C#m7 F#m7 Bm7 E)
AC#m7F#m7
If I lost you now, would I cry?
Dmaj7CAE7sus4
Oh my god, would I.
(end on A) (Try: xx 11 9 10 9)