Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out Acoustic chords by John Lennon

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

John Lennon
Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out) (1974)
(Lennon)

This acoustic demo was released as a bonus track on the 2005 re-issue
of "Walls and Bridges"

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CHORDS

     E-A-D-G-B-e
Dsus2Dsus2   x-x-0-2-3-0
E7E7    0-2-2-1-3-0
G+G     3-x-0-0-3-3
D augmentedDaug   x-x-0-3-3-2
D6D6    x-x-0-4-3-2

Intro:
D MajorD

(engineer): Nine
(Lennon): Nine is the lucky number ... two, three, four

| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD |
| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD |
       (break)

Verse:
D MajorD               E7E7
 Nobody loves you when you're down and out
G+G               D MajorD
 Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine
              (break)
D MajorD              E7E7
 Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
G+G              D MajorD
 I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine
              (break)

Bridge:
D MajorD             D augmentedDaug
 I've been across to the other side
D6D6                 F#F#       G+G F#F#
 I've shown you everything, I got nothing to hide
G+G        A augmentedA      D MajorD
  But still you ask me do I love you
    B minorBm
What it is, what it is
G+G      Gm7Gm7       D MajorD       B7B7
 All I can tell you is it's all show biz
G+G      Gm7Gm7       D MajorD
 All I can tell you is it's all show biz
              (break)
N.C.                    D MajorD :
What it is, what it is, what it is, what it is

Verse:
D MajorD               E7E7
 Nobody loves you when you're down and out
G+G               D MajorD        Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD :
 Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine
D MajorD              E7E7
 Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
G+G              D MajorD
 I'll scratch your back and you knife mine
              (break)


Bridge:
D MajorD                 D augmentedDaug
 I've been across the water now ... so many times
D6D6                  F#F#         G+G F#F#
 I've seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
G+G        A augmentedA      D MajorD
  And still you ask me do I love you
     B minorBm
What you say, what you say
G+G          Gm7Gm7       D MajorD      B7B7
 Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
G+G          Gm7Gm7       D MajorD
 Everytime I put my finger on it, it slips away
                  (break)
N.C.                        D MajorD :
What you say, what you say, what you say, what you say

Solo:
| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD |
| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD |


Middle 8:
    D MajorD
Well I get up in the morning
    D augmentedDaug           D6D6  G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD
And I'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-oo-oo-oo wee!
                        (break)
     D MajorD
Then I'm lying in the darkness
   D augmentedDaug        D6D6   G+G   A augmentedA   D MajorD
And I know I can't get to sleep, oo-oo-oo-oo wee!
                      (break)
N.C.
(... two, three, four – one, two three, four)


Verse:
D MajorD               E7E7
 Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
G+G               D MajorD       Dsus2Dsus2 D MajorD :
 Nobody needs you when you're upside down
D MajorD                  E7E7
 Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
G+G                 D MajorD
 Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground
                (break)
Outro:
| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD  Dsus2Dsus2 |
(whistling)
| D MajorD | E7E7 | G+G | D MajorD  Dsus2Dsus2 |
(whistling)

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