This song was rejected by over 30 acts before the Everly Brothers picked
it up and to it to #2 for 4 weeks.
This is off Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water", because
I didn't have an Everly Brothers recording. To play with the record,
capo on the second fret.
Bye Bye Love
By Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
INTRO: E D5 A A D5 E
[CHORUS]
A E
Bye bye, love.
A E
Bye bye, happiness.
A E
Hello, loneliness.
E B E
I think I'm gonna cry.
A E
Bye bye, love.
A E
Bye bye, sweet caress.
A E
Hello, emptiness.
E B E
I feel like I could die.
E B E
Bye bye, my love, goodbye.
[VERSE 1]
E B
There goes my baby
B E
With someone new.
E B
She sure looks happy;
B E
I sure am blue.
E A
She was my baby
A B
'till he stepped in.
B
Goodbye, to romance
B E
That might have been.
(CHORUS)
[VERSE 2]
E B
I'm through with romance.
B E
I'm through with love.
E B
I'm through with counting
B E
The stars above,
E A
And here's the reason
A B
That I'm so free:
B
My lovin' baby
B E
Is through with me.
(CHORUS)
(repeat and fade) Goodbye, my love goodbye.
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