Never Coming Home chords by
Sting

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Key: F minor•

Intro 1

Em

Em

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C

C

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Em

Em

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Verse 1

C

C

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Well, it's five in the morning

D

D

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and the light's already broken

Em

Em

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And the rainy streets are empty

for nobody else has woken

C

C

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Yet you turn towards the window as he

Bsus4

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B

B

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sleeps beneath the covers

Em

Em

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And you wonder what he's

dreaming in his slumbers

Verse 2

Em

Em

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There's a clock upon the table

Am

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Em

Em

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and it's burning up the hour

C

C

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Em

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And you feel your life is shrinking

like the petals of a flower

G

G

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D

D

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As you creep towards the closet you're so

Em

Em

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B

B

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careful not to wake him

Em

Em

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And you choose the cotton dress

C

C

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you bought last summer

Am

Am

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There's a time

Verse 3

C

C

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of indecision between

D

D

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Am

Am

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Em

Em

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the bedroom and the door

Am

Am

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But the part of you that knows that

Em

Em

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you can't take it any more

C

C

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There's the promise of the future

D

D

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Em

Em

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in the creaking of the floor

B

B

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Em

Em

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And you're torn if you should

Verse 4

leave him with a number

Em

Em

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C

C

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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F#

F#

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And in your imagina tion you're

Bsus4

Bsus4

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B

B

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a thousand miles away

C

C

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Because too many of his promises

D

D

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got broken on the way

Bb

Bb

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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F#

F#

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So you write it in a letter all

Bsus4

Bsus4

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the things you couldn't say

B

B

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C#dim

C#dim

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And you tell him that you're

D#dim

D#dim

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B

B

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Em

Em

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never coming home

Verse 5

C

C

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Am

Am

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She starts running for the railway station,

C

C

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praying that her calculation's right

Em

Em

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And there's a train just waiting there to

Am

Am

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get her to the city before night

C

C

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A place to sleep a place to stay will

get her through another day

B

B

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Em

Em

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She'll take a job she'll find a friend

she'll make a life that's better

Am

Am

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The

Verse 6

C

C

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Em

Em

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Am

Am

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passengers ignore her

Em

Em

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just a girl with an umbrella

C

C

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Am

Am

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And there's nothing they can do for her,

Em

Em

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there's nothing they can tell her

C

C

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There's nothing they could ever say would

B

B

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change the way she feels today

Em

Em

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She'd live the life she'd always dreamed if

Bbdim

Bbdim

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he had only let her

F#

F#

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Now in her imagination she's a million

Verse 7

Em

Em

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Bsus4

Bsus4

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miles away

B

B

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C

C

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When too many of his promises

D

D

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got broken on the way

Bbdim

Bbdim

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So she wrote it in a letter all

F#

F#

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Em

Em

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Bsus4

Bsus4

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the things she couldn't say

B

B

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C#m

C#m

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And she told him she was never

D#dim

D#dim

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B

B

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Em

Em

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coming home

C#dim

C#dim

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D#dim

D#dim

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And she told him she was never coming

Em

Em

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home

Interlude 1

C

C

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Em

Em

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C

C

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Em

Em

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C

C

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Em

Em

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Verse 8

Em

Em

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Am

Am

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I wake up in an empty bed a road

C

C

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D

D

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drill hammers in my head

Am

Am

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C

C

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Em

Em

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I call her name there's no reply

C

C

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it's not like her to let me lie

D

D

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Em

Em

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C

C

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It's time for work it's time to go but something's different,

B

B

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I don't know

Em

Em

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I need a cup of coffee

C

C

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and I'll feel better

Am

Am

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I

Verse 9

C

C

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Am

Am

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stumble to the bathroom door,

D

D

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her make up bag is on the floor

Em

Em

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C

C

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It really is a mess this place,

Em

Em

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C

C

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it takes some time to shave my face

D

D

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I'm not really thinking straight she

Em

Em

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C

C

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B

B

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never lets me sleep this late

Em

Em

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I'm almost done and then I see the letter

C

C

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In

Verse 10

Bbdim

Bbdim

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F#

F#

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his imagination she's

Em

Em

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Bsus4

Bsus4

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B

B

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a universe away

C

C

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Too many of his promises

D

D

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got broken on the way

Bb

Bb

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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So she wrote it in a letter

Bbaug

Bbaug

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F#

F#

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B

B

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all things she couldn't say

C#m

C#m

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And she told him she was

D#dim

D#dim

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B

B

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never coming home

Em

Em

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C#dim

C#dim

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And she told him she was

D#dim

D#dim

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Em

Em

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never coming home

C#dim

C#dim

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And she told him she was

D#dim

D#dim

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B

B

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never coming home

Verse 11

Em

Em

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Am

Am

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Bb

Bb

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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B

B

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C

C

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D

D

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Em

Em

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I'm gonna

live my life,

Am

Am

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Bb

Bb

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Bbdim

Bbdim

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I'm gonna live my life

B

B

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C

C

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And she told him she was

D

D

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never coming home

Em

Em

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I'm gonna live my life,

Am

Am

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C

C

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I'm gonna live my life

B

B

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C

C

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And she told him she was

D

D

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never coming home

Em

Em

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Am

Am

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I'm gonna live my life,

Bb

Bb

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I'm gonna live my life

B

B

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C

C

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And she told him she was

D

D

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never coming home

Verse 12

Em

Em

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C

C

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I'm gonna live my life,

I'm gonna live my life

I'm gonna live my life, I'm

Em

Em

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gonna live my life

C

C

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I'm gonna live my life,

D

D

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I'm gonna live my life

I'm gonna live my life, I'm

Em

Em

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gonna live my life

And she told him she was

never coming home

And she told him she was never

coming home

Outro 1

And she told him she was never coming home

C

C

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D

D

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C

C

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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C

C

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D

D

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C

C

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Em

Em

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C

C

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D

D

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C

C

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Em

Em

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B

B

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Em

Em

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C

C

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D

D

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B

B

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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B

B

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C

C

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C

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Em

Em

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Em

Em

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C

C

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C

C

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Em

Em

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C

C

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C

C

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Em

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Em

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Em

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Chords

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C
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Bsus4
B
Am
G
Bbdim
F#
Bb
C#dim
D#dim
C#m
Bbaug

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Frequently asked questions

The original key of Never Coming Home by Sting is F minor.

The primary chords used in Never Coming Home are Fm, Db, Eb, Csus4, C, Bbm.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 1 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like Fm, Db, Eb, Csus4, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Never Coming Home is approximately 128 beats per minute.

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