Bye Bye Love | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| A C D | N.C | A C D | N.C |
Chorus 1
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye happiness.
| D | A | A E | A |
Hello loneliness, I think I’m a-gonna cry.
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye sweet caress.
| D | A | A E | A | A E | A |
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die, bye-bye my love, goodbye.
Verse 1
| A5 N.C | E | E | A |
There goes my baby, with someone new.
| A | E | E | A |
She sure looks happy, I sure am blue.
| A | D | D | E |
She was my baby, ’til he stepped in.
| E | E | E | A | A7 |
Goodbye to romance, that might have been.
Chorus 2
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye happiness.
| D | A | A E | A |
Hello loneliness, I think I’m a-gonna cry.
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye sweet caress.
| D | A | A E | A | A E | A |
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die, but bye-bye my love, goodbye
Verse 2
| A5 N.C | E | E | A |
I’m through with romance, I’m through with love.
| A | E | E | A |
I’m through with countin’ the stars above.
| A A7 | D | D | E |
And here’s the reason that I’m so free.
| E | E | E | A | A7 |
My lovin’ baby is through with me.
Chorus 3
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye happiness.
| D | A | A E | A A7 |
Hello loneliness, I think I’m a-gonna cry.
| D | A | D | A |
Bye-bye love, bye-bye sweet caress.
| D | A | A E | A | A E | A |
Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die, but bye-bye my love, goodbye
Outro
||: A E | A :|| to fade
||: Bye-bye my love, goodbye :|| to fade
Bye Bye Love’s chords, progressions, and TAB
The Everly Brother’s Bye Bye Love was released in 1957 and reached the top of the charts, since then it has been covered by both The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel.
Being The Everly Brothers’ first big hit, it paved the way for a string of hits that established the duo as one of the best-selling of all time.
Being a classic “3 chord song” using I – IV – V, it is only the intro that strays from the concept using the bIIIx chord (C).
The intro is also the only part that The Everly Brothers actually wrote, the actual song was written by husband and wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
As a member, you get access to the TAB of a guitar part that is a combination of what the Everly Brothers and Chet Atkins play on the “original” recording.
It has been adapted to work in a band where you are the only guitarist. Here’s a link to the full lesson (members only): Bye Bye Love chord analysis and TAB.
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