50 Ways To Leave Your Lover | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: drums :|| x6
| Em/G D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 | Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4b5 Baug |
| Em D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 | Em Am7 | Em |
Verse 1
| Em/G D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
The problem is all inside your head, she said to me.
| Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4 B7b9 B7 |
The answer is easy if you take it logically.
| Em D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free.
| Em Am7 | Em |
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
Verse 2
| Em/G D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
She said, “It’s really not my habit to intrude.
| Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4 Baug |
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued.
| Em D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
But I’ll repeat myself, at the risk of being crude.
| Em Am7 | Em |
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
| Em Am7 | Em |
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
Chorus 1
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
You just slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
You don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Hop on the bus, Gus. You don’t need to discuss much.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
Chorus 2
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Ooh, slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
You don’t need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me.
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G | G |
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
Verse 3
| Em/G D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
She said, it grieves me so to see you in such pain.
| Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4 Baug |
I wish there was something I could do to make you smile again.
| Em D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
I said, I appreciate that, and would you please explain,
| Em Am7 | Em |
about the fifty ways?
Verse 4
| Em/G D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
She said, why don’t we both just sleep on it tonight?
| Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4 Baug |
And I believe in the morning, you’ll begin to see the light.
| Em D6 | Cmaj7 B7b9 B7 |
And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right.
| Em Am7 | Em |
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
| Em Am7 | Em |
Fifty ways to leave your lover.
Chorus 3
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
You just slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
You don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
Chorus 4
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
You don’t need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me.
| G5 G7 G6 | Bb6 G7/Bb G6/Bb |
Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much.
| Csus2 G7/C G6/C | G5 G7 G6 |
Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
Outro
||: drums :|| to fade
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover’s verse chords, progressions, and TAB
Every drummer’s favorite tune (even ahead of Rosanna!) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover doesn’t just have an awesome drum groove by Steve Gadd, it also has some great chords!
There are many tutorials online claiming they know what the chords are. I found after spending several hours with this tune that they were not 100% correct.
The main thing is that second line of the verse, the chords actually are:
| Em B7/D# | F#dimadd4 B7b9 B7 |
Most teachers claim it is:
| Em D#dim7 | F#dim7 B7b9 B7 |
But there is in fact an open B string in there. What Paul Simon has done here is moved his fingers until he was happy, not sat down with the theory book, and produced what is expected of him.
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