Old Flames Can't Hold A Candle To You chords by Merle Haggard

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse:
D MajorD                      G+G
Downtown tonight I saw an old friend someone who,
 A augmentedA          A7A7    F# minorF#m     D MajorD
I use to take comfort from long before I met you,
  D MajorD                     G+G
And I caught a spark in her eyes of forgotten desire,
      A augmentedA                      D MajorD
And with a word or a touch I could have rekindled that fire.

  F# minorF#m  D MajorD           G+G  G/DG/D G+G G/DG/D
Old flames can't hold a candle to you,
A augmentedA     A7A7        F# minorF#m   D MajorD
No one can light up my night like you do,
D MajorD                      G+G
Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two,
  A augmentedA                 D MajorD
But old flames can't hold a candle to you.

Break:
C6C6 B7B7 Bb majorBb G minorGm C#6C#6 Ab/C B6B6

Verse:
Eb MajorEb                      AbAb
Sometimes at night I think of old lovers I've known,
  Bb majorBb          Bb7Bb7       Bb6Bb6   Eb MajorEb
And remember how holding them made me not feel so alone,
Eb MajorEb                    Eb6Eb6     AbAb
Then I feel you beside me and even their memories are gone,
     Bb majorBb                      Eb MajorEb
And like stars in the night lost in the sweet light of dawn.

  Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb           AbAb Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Ab6Ab6 Abmaj7Abmaj7
Old flames can't hold a candle to you.
Bb majorBb     Bb6Bb6  Bb7Bb7     Bb6Bb6   Eb MajorEb
No one can light up my night like you do.
Eb MajorEb               Eb6Eb6     AbAb Ab6Ab6 Ab/Eb
Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two.
  Bb majorBb        G minorGm        Eb MajorEb
But old flames can't hold a candle to you.

Break:
G minorGm Eb6Eb6 Eb MajorEb F minorFm Eb MajorEb F minorFm Ab/Eb Bb majorBb Ab/F Bb majorBb Ab/Bb Eb MajorEb

Eb MajorEb                      AbAb
Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two.
  Bb majorBb     Bb7Bb7  G minorGm        Eb MajorEb
But old flames can't hold a candle to you.

C#6C#6 C7C7 B6B6 Eb MajorEb C#6C#6 C7C7 AbmAbm Eb MajorEb