Chords + Lyrics | Go Your Own Way
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 Backing Tracks | Chord Analysis
Above, you’ll find backing tracks to use when learning Go Your Own Way. I’ve used stem separation to extract the guitar while keeping the drums, bass, keys, horns, and vocals intact.
After studying the chords and TAB, use my backing tracks to prepare for playing this tune with a band.
Should you want to play along with the original recording instead, you need to tune your guitar sharp to 447Hz. In the backing tracks, I’ve done this job for you by tuning it to 440Hz.
Chord Progressions – What’s Going On?
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—find it furtehr down this guitar lesson.
Verse
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 :||
Chorus
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 Download
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 | TAB
Let’s take a look at how we can combine all the chord riffs Lindsey Buckingham laid down on the original recording into a single guitar part that works live when you’re the only guitarist in the band.
Here’s the intro and verse in TAB:
There are a lot of chords packed into this section—hopefully, the chords and lyrics lesson make more sense now. I’ve written F/C here because that’s what the guitar plays, even though the bass still sticks with an F root—it’s a bit of an odd one.
For the C6, I used the open position. On the original, it’s played in more of a honky-tonk style.
The Bbsus2 – Bb part was extremely awkward when I tried to include the 3rd on beat 2. In the end, I decided it wasn’t worth the hassle and simplified it—now all you do is move your fingers up from strings 3–4 to 2–3.
If you’re stressing about bass notes—don’t! There’ll be a bass player at the gig.
Here’s the chorus. It’s very similar across all three passes, but the slight variations are enough that I had to write it out each time. Those little changes help bring the part to life.
When you can play all this TAB, try it out using the backing track and chord chart.
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!
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