Could I Leave You? chords by Stephen Sondheim
Verse 1
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Bm
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Bm
Leave you, leave you,
Em
E
how could I leave you?
C
D
Cm
C
How could I go it alone?
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D
G
Could I wave the years away
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G
A
Am
with a quick goodbye?
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C
D
Em
A
How do you wipe tears away when
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D
your eyes are dry?
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D
Sweetheart, lover,
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Bm
G
Em
Bm
could I recov er?
D
Abaug
C
Ebdim
Cdim
Cm
Give up the joys I have known
C
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Not to fetch your pills again,
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A
Am
every day at five
C
Em
Not to give those dinners for
B
Em
ten elderly men from the
UN
A
Dsus4
How could I survive?
D
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Dm
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Could I leave you and your
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C
shelves of the world's best books
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F#sus4
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And the evenings of martyred looks,
F#m
Bsus4
cryptic sighs
E
Sullen glares from those injured eyes
C#m
C#sus4
leave the quips with the sting
Abm
B
Jokes with the sneer
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Passionless lovemaking once
Bbdim
a year leave the lies
Bbm
Bbdim
Ill -concealed
And the wounds never healed
And the game's not worth winning
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E
And wait! I'm just beginning!
C
What?
G
Leave you?
Leave you?
C
How could I leave you?
G
What would I do on my own?
Putting thoughts of you
A
aside in the south of
France
D
C
Em
A
Would I think of suicide?
D
C
Darling, shall we dance?
Dsus4
Could I live through the
pain on a terrace in
Spain?
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Would it pass?
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It would pass
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G
Dsus4
Could I bury my rage with a boy
D
half your age in the grass?
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Bet your ass
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C
But I've done that already
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Or didn't you know, love?
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D
Tell me, how could I leave
A
D
When I left long ago, love?
Dm
Could I leave you?
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G
C
No, the point is, could you leave me?
Well, I guess you could
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leave me the house
A
Leave me the flat
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Leave me the
Brocks and
Chagalls and all that
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You could leave me the stocks
For sentiment's sake
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And 90 % of the money you make
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And the rugs
And the cooks
Darling, you keep the drugs
Angel, you keep the books
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E
Honey, I'll take the grand stucco
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You keep the spillet
And all of our friends and just
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Wait a goddamn minute!
Oh!
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Leave you, leave you
How could I leave you?
C
Ebdim
Sweetheart, I have to confess
Em
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G
Asus4
Could I leave you?
A
Yes!
D
Will I leave you?
G
Will I leave you?
Yes!
Could I Leave You?
Stephen Sondheim
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