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
Tell me why, everything turned around.
Packing up, shacking up is all you want to do.
If I could, Baby, I’d give you my world.
Open up, everything’s waiting for you.
Chorus 2
You can go your own way, go your own way.
You can call it another lonely day.
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
You can go your own way, go your own way.
You can call it another lonely day (another lonely day).
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: Mastering the Arrangement
Fleetwood Mac’s Go Your Own Way is in the (for guitar players) awkward key of F.
Adding to the challenge, there are multiple layers of guitars, some using a capo. As the only guitarist in a band, your task is to blend the key chord riffs into a single guitar part that works live.
I’ve created some TAB to show how this can be done—here’s a link to that section of the lesson: Go Your Own Way – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Once you’ve learned the TAB, you’ll recognise the verse riff by seeing the chords (which, without extensions, are simply I, V, and IV). Here are the verse chords for Go Your Own Way:
||: F (I) Fsus2 | F Fsus2 | F Fsus2 | C (V) C6 |
| Bb (IV) Bbsus2 | Bb Bbsus2 | Bb Bbsus2 | F Fsus2 :||
The chorus, solo, and outro follow a VI – IV – V progression. In the key of F, that looks like this:
||: Dm (VI) | Bb (IV) | C (V) | C :||
Once you’ve worked out your guitar part using the TAB, this chord chart is all you need.
Go Your Own Way Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Go Your Own Way Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Go Your Own Way iReal Pro. Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key.
Go Your Own Way and Rumours!
As the band members’ relationships fell apart, they channelled their experiences into the songs that made up the iconic album Rumours (1977).
Nowhere is this more obvious than in Go Your Own Way, where Lindsey and Stevie take turns singing to each other about their breakup.
Their harmonies create a strange tension, as everyone listening knows the backstory.
To make things even more intense, the album became one of the most successful of all time, selling 40 million copies worldwide. This meant the band had to stay together, tour, and sing these deeply personal songs to each other night after night!
The follow-up, Tusk, was both a musical and commercial disaster. Even so, they stuck together until 1987—ten years after recording Go Your Own Way. Now that’s dedication!
Go Your Own Way Chords: Continue Learning
Want to master this song? Check out the full TAB lesson here: Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) Guitar Lesson with TAB.
Alternatively, here are five similar tunes you might enjoy:
- American Girl
- Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In Its Spotlight)
- Doctor My Eyes
- Everywhere
- Starman