Come Away With Me | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: 3/4 C | Am7 :|| x4
Verse 1
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
Come away with me in the night.
| C | Am7 | Em7 | Fadd9 | C | G |
Come away with me and I will write you a song.
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
Come away with me on a bus.
| C | Am7 | Em7 | Fadd9 | C | C |
Come away where they can’t tempt us with their lies.
Bridge 1
| G | Fadd9 | C | C |
And I want to walk with you, on a cloudy day.
| G | Fadd9 | C | G |
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high. So won’t you try to come.
Verse 2
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
Come away with me and we’ll kiss, on a mountaintop.
| C | Am7 | Em7 | Fadd9 | C | G |
Come away with me, and I’ll never stop loving you.
Solo
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
| C | Am7 | Em7 | Fadd9 | C | G |
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
| C | Am7 | Em7 | Fadd9 | C | C |
Bridge 2
And I want to wake up with the rain, falling on a tin roof.
While I’m safe there in your arms, so all I ask is for you.
Verse 3
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
To come away with me in the night.
| C | G | C |
Come away with me
Come Away With Me Chords: Learn the progressions
Being completely diatonic (no chords are outside the key), Come Away With Me‘s chords certainly don’t break any harmonic rules.
All chord progressions are super-common, let’s look at them one by one.
The verse starts with a minor fall (ranked at #7 on my top 10 chord progressions). In the key of C, that means:
||: C (I) | Am7 (VI) :||
After repeating this three times, we move like this:
| Em7 (III) | Fadd9 (IV) | C (I) | G (V) |
The bridge is all V, IV, and I chords. After repeating it, we go to V at the end, like this:
| G (V) | Fadd9 (IV) | C (I) | C |
| G | Fadd9 | C | G |
Not only are these chords diatonic, but If you picture all these chords as open-position chords in your mind (or play them!) you can see how that open G string is present throughout. Another song that does this is Blackbird.
This technique is called common tones, or a drone should you keep it ringing.
There is TAB available which investigates how to best play the bridge and the verse you saw above. Study these and you’ll soon be able to play all these chords in an improvised and varied manner.
If you have a set, predictable part, Come Away With Me won’t sound like Jazz. Since the chords are so basic, we have to provide the unpredictable element in the rhythm.
Here’s a link to the part of this lesson which looks into this: Come Away With Me – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Once you got the hang of the TAB and how to play with a more unpredictable rhythm, you could improvise your part with the help of a simple chord chart.
Come Away With Me Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
This may be the best beginner jazz tune of all time. In the familiar key of C, we play all diatonic chords using a simple arrangement.
This means that you must focus on what matters; putting emotion into your playing!
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Come Away With Me Chord Chart PDF.
This chart was created using iRealPro, here’s a link to that file: Come Away With Me iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
I believe it would be a great exercise for you to take Come Away With You’s chords through all 12 keys. Find out if you can play the melody and improvise a solo no matter the key or position on the fretboard.
Doing this takes you very far away from this being a beginner song!
Come Away With Me was Norah Jones’s debut single!
Norah Jones‘s breakthrough single Come Away With Me made her an instant worldwide success. Many critics initially dismissed the album calling it the least jazz album ever to be released on the record label Blue Note.
Clearly, the audience disagreed as of 2016, Come Away With Me (album) has become one of the most sold of all time, coming in at 27 million.
It ended up being the best-selling jazz album of all time, putting those initial critics to shame!
The album went on to grab her six Grammy Awards. Apart from the title track, only one more single had similar success, the opener, Don’t Know Why.
Norah’s debut album is a great example of what Nile Rodgers calls DHM (deeper hidden meaning). You don’t spell it out, you hint at it.
Looking at Come Away’s lyrics above and considering how she delivers it, who wouldn’t want to travel to a mountaintop with Norah for a kiss and then see what happens?!?
Come Away With Me Chords | Related Pages
Come Away With Me | Guitar Lesson + TAB
In this guitar lesson, you get TAB for the verse and bridge of Come Away With Me which will guide you to a place where you can improvise your acoustic guitar part.
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
Come away with me in the night…
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- Summertime chords by Billie Holiday
- Wonderful Tonight chords by Eric Clapton
Norah Jones tunes
Norah Jones released her incredibly successful album Come Away With Me on the legendary label Blue Note at the age of 23.
The album won her 8 Grammy Awards and sold over 20 million copies. No wonder everyone in the business wanted to appear on the follow-up!
Norah Jones on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Come Away With Me chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
