Only When You're Lonely chords by The Grass Roots

Chords with lyrics

Only When You're Lonely:The Grass Roots.
#96 on BB Hot 100 on DUNHILL Records in
1966.

INTRO: D MajorD

#1.
D MajorD
Only when you're lonely do you come knockin'
A augmentedA
at my door.

Knowin' that I'll be there to give you what
    D MajorD
you're looking for.
D MajorD                      G+G  E MajorE
All of your so called friends have left you fall.

CHORUS:
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G+G         A augmentedA              D MajorD B minorBm
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.

#2.
D MajorD                      E minor 7Em7
I'm not kidding myself, I know just where I fit in

your plans.
  A augmentedA
So, don't you, start kidding yourself, I'm not the
     D MajorD
fool you think I am.
                        G+G  E MajorE
Oh, you toy with me just like I was your rubber ball.

CHORUS:
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G+G         A augmentedA              D MajorD
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.

BRIDGE:
    G+G               A augmentedA
I don't mind (I don't mind) comes the time, I spend
      D MajorD
with you is precious to me.
        G+G                 A augmentedA
And though it's true (though it's true) I'll need you.
               D MajorD        GbmGbm
(I'll be with you)..oh, it's alright cause I like having
B minorBm     A augmentedA
you around me.

CHORUS:
   D MajorD                    A augmentedA   E minor 7Em7
Only, when you're lonely do you come knockin' at my door.
A augmentedA
Knowin' somehow I'll be there like the too many times
D MajorD
I've been before.
                  G+G  E MajorE
Oh, loving you I know is my biggest fault.

CHORUS:
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you run to me.
D MajorD               B minorBm
Only when you're lonely do you come to me.
G+G         A augmentedA              D MajorD
Only, when you're lonely do you think of me at all.


OUTRO:

......D B minorBm D MajorD Bm....G.....(Fade.)


A augmentedA sixties smash from Kraziekhat.