Go Your Own Way | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
| F | F (Fsus2) |
Verse 1
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
Loving you, isn’t the right thing to do.
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
How can I ever change things that I feel?
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
If I could, Baby, I’d give you my world
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
How can I, when you won’t take it from me?
Chorus 1
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
| Dm | Bb | C | C (C6) |
You can call it another lonely day.
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
Verse 2
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
Tell me why, everything turned around.
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do.
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
If I could, Baby, I’d give you my world.
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
Open up, everything’s waiting for you.
Chorus 2
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
| Dm | Bb | C | C (C6) |
You can call it another lonely day.
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
Instrumental
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
| F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) |
Chorus 3
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
| Dm | Bb | C | C (C6) |
You can call it another lonely day (another lonely day).
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way, go your own way.
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can call it another lonely day.
Solo
||: Dm | Bb | C | C :|| x5
Outro
| Dm | Bb | C | C |
You can go your own way.
| Dm | Bb | C | C (C6) |
You can call it another lonely day.
| Dm | Bb | C | C (C6) | fade
You can go your own way.
Go Your Own Way Chords: Learn the progressions
Fleetwood Mac‘s Go Your Own Way is in the (for guitar players) awkward key of F.
What’s more, there are several layers of guitars, some using a capo.
This means that our challenge as the only guitarist in the band is to combine the most important chord riffs into one guitar part that works live.
As a member, you get TAB for how this can be done, alongside an analysis of what’s going on with Go Your Own Way’s chords.
Once you know the TAB, you’ll remember the verse riff by seeing the chords, which without extensions are just the I, V, and IV, like this:
||: F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | F (Fsus2) | C (C6) |
| Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | Bb (Bbsus2) | F (Fsus2) :||
The chorus, solo, and outro use the chord progression VI – IV – V, in the key of F this is:
||: Dm | Bb | C | C :||
Here’s a link to the full lesson: Go Your Own Way – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Go Your Own Way and Rumours!
As the band members’ marriages were falling apart, they put the experience into the songs that made up the incredible album Rumours (1977).
No more obvious is this than in Go Your Own Way where Lindsey and Stevie take turns in singing to each other about how they are breaking up.
As they harmonize it is an odd feeling as everyone listening to the album knows the backstory.
To top it off, because the album was one of the most successful of all time (40 million copies worldwide), the band had to stick together, tour, and sing these songs to each other every night!
The follow-up, Tusk was musically and commercially a disaster, still, they stuck together until 1987, ten years after they recorded Go Your Own Way, that’s dedication!
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Fleetwood Mac tunes
Formed in 1968 and named after the drummer and bass player, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, Fleetwood Mac had an extraordinary journey.
Tunes include Dreams, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Everywhere, Little Lies, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, The Chain, Don’t Stop, and Gold Dust Woman.
Fleetwood Mac on the web
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