Chords + Lyrics | Come Away With Me
Intro
||: 3/4 C | Am7 :|| x4
Verse 1 + 2
| 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 3
| 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.
Outro
| C | Am7 | C | Am7 |
To come away with me in the night.
| C | G | C |
Come away with me
Come Away With Me Backing Tracks | Chord Analysis
Above, you’ll find backing tracks to use when learning Come Away With Me. Rather than using stem separation to extract the guitar as I usually do, this backing track with and without piano was created using iReal Pro.
After studying the chords and TAB, use my backing tracks to prepare for playing this tune with a band.
Chord Progressions – What’s Going On?
Entirely diatonic, Come Away With Me stays within the key without introducing any unexpected harmonic shifts. Its chord progressions are well-established, let’s break them down.
Verse
The verse begins with a minor fall, which ranks at #7 on my top 10 chord progressions. In the key of C, that looks like this:
||: C (I) | Am7 (VI) :||
After three repetitions, the progression moves as follows:
| Em7 (III) | Fadd9 (IV) | C (I) | G (V) |
Keep scrolling down this guitar lesson to get TAB for this and all other sections.
Bridge
The bridge revolves around V, IV, and I chords. It repeats before culminating to V at the end:
||: G (V) | Fadd9 (IV) | C (I) :|| 1. C | 2. G |
Playing this on the guitar, not only are these chords diatonic, but they also share a common tone—the open G string—which rings throughout.
Another tune that utilises this technique is Blackbird, although in the Beatles classic, they do it more obviosly. When sustained like this deliberately, this is known as a drone or a common tone.
Since the harmony is straightforward, it’s the rhythm that introduces an unpredictable, jazz-like feel. If you play Come Away With Me with a fixed, predictable rhythm, it won’t sound like jazz at all.
Once you’ve mastered the TAB and developed a fluid rhythmic approach, you can easily improvise your part using a simple chord chart.
Come Away With Me Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro Download
If you’d like to download the chord chart, here’s a PDF: Come Away With Me chord chart PDF.
This chart was created using iReal Pro, and you can find the file here: Come Away With Me iReal Pro. With the iReal Pro app, you can change the key.
For a real challenge, use iReal Pro and take Come Away With Me‘s chords through all 12 keys. Work on playing the melody and improvise solos in every key and across all fretboard positions.
Come Away With Me | TAB
Since the chords are so basic, but we want this to feel like Jazz, we have to introduce an element of unpredictability in the rhythm.
Compare this to Wish You Were Here—which uses the complete opposite in approach. This TAB for the verse shows you what I mean:
The chords are just I – VI on repeat, then III – IV – I – V. But look at the rhythm—it’s constantly shifting. Play this over and over until it feels natural, then play along with the original recording as well as my backing tracks with, and especially without, piano..
Here’s the bridge:
Again, the chords are simple (V – IV – I, and then V after the repeat), but the rhythm never stays the same, giving the part a real sense of fluidity. Play this on a loop until it feels effortless.
Once you can confidently play both the verse and bridge as written, let go of the TAB and see what happens when you just follow the chords—or better yet, close your eyes!
Norah Jones’s Debut Single
Norah Jones’s breakthrough single, Come Away With Me, made her an instant worldwide success. While some critics initially dismissed the album, calling it the least jazz-like record ever released on Blue Note, the audience clearly thought otherwise.
As of 2016, the Come Away With Me album has sold a staggering 27 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It does hold the title of the best-selling jazz album ever, proving those early critics wrong.
The album’s success earned Norah six Grammy Awards. With the title track became iconic, and one other single, Don’t Know Why, achieved similar chart success.
Norah’s debut album is a perfect example of what Nile Rodgers calls DHM—Deeper Hidden Meaning. Rather than spelling everything out, it hints at emotions and stories beneath the surface.
Just look at the lyrics of Come Away With Me and the way she delivers them—who wouldn’t want to escape to a mountaintop with Norah for a kiss and see where the moment leads?
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