Billie Holiday

When Your Lover Has Gone(Chords)

Billie Holiday

Key: Cm

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Recitative 
Gm                Cm/G         Gm          Ebm6 
For ages and ages,     the poets and sages  
Cdim  Gm                     D7/13- D7       Gm D7/13- 
Of      love won d love      always sing 
       G7         C9    Cdim  Bb7               Bbdim 
But ask any lover and    you soon discover 
A7       D                 A7 Bbdim     Cm6 
The heartaches that romance can bring 
          Gm             Cm/G              Gm                Ebm6 
What good is the scheming, the planning and dreaming 
Cdim  Gm                    D7/13- D7       Gm D7/13- 
That  comes with each new      love affair 
        G7                   C9      Cdim  Bb7               Bbdim 
The love that you cherish, so        often might perish 
A7      D                    A7 Bbdim    Cm6 
And leaves you with castles        in air 
Chorus 
G Bm            G7 G6 Gm Bb5+       Bb      C7    C 
When  you're alone,         who cares for starlit skies 
A7             Bbdim A7 Cm Eb5+ Cm7       Cm6       G 
When you're      alone,       the magic moonlight dies 
            B7  Em   A7              F#m A7 G         A9    D5+        G     Abm6 D7 F#7/13- G 
At break of   dawn, there is no sunrise,   when your lover has gone 
    Bm      G7  G6   Gm Bb5+  Bb          C7    C 
What lonely hours,       the evening shadows bring 
A7           Bbdim  A7  Cm  Eb5+    Cm7     Cm6     
What lonely       hours,       with mem lingering 
G          B7  Em     Cm6      D7   Cdim E7M E7 
Like faded flow,       life can't mean  anything 
Am              Eb7   D7/13- G    Eb7 D9 D5+ 
When your lover  has      gone 
G Bm            G7 G6 Gm Bb5+       Bb      C7    C 
When  you're alone,         who cares for starlit skies 
A7             Bbdim A7 Cm Eb5+ Cm7       Cm6       G 
When you're      alone,       the magic moonlight dies 
            B7  Em   A7              F#m A7 G         A9    D5+        G     Abm6 D7 F#7/13- G 
At break of   dawn, there is no sunrise,    when your lover has gone 
    Bm      G7  G6   Gm Bb5+  Bb          C7    C 
What lonely hours,       the evening shadows bring 
A7           Bbdim  A7  Cm  Eb5+    Cm7     Cm6     
What lonely       hours,       with memories lingering 
G          B7  Em     Cm6      D7   Cdim E7M E7 
Like faded flow,       life can't mean  anything 
Am              Eb7   D7/13- G    G7 A7 Eb7 G 
When your lover  has      gone
	        

Written by E. A Swan

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