When You Were Mine chords by Prince

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

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

Key: E MajorE

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

E MajorE BB A augmentedA BB  E MajorE BB A augmentedA BB

Verse:

E MajorE        BB
 When you were mine
A augmentedA      BB     B/G# BB
 I gave you all of my mo-ney
E MajorE      BB
 Time after time
E MajorE       BB
 You done me wrong...

E MajorE          BB
 It was just like a dream
A augmentedA        BB      B/G# BB  E MajorE
 You let all my friends come over and meet
        BB
And you were so strange
A augmentedA           BB
 You didn't have the decency
       E MajorE
To change the sheets
       BB
Oh girl, when you were mine
A augmentedA      BB      B/G# BB  E MajorE
 I used to let you wear all my clothes
       BB
You were so fine (so fine)
A augmentedA         BB
 Maybe that's the reason
        Asus2Asus2
That it hurt me so

Chorus:

     BB
I know (I know)
            G# minorG#m     Asus2Asus2
That you're going with another guy
Asus2Asus2        BB
 Don't care (don't care)
             G# minorG#m    Asus2Asus2
‘cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
Asus2Asus2          BB
 I love you more than I did
       E MajorE BB A augmentedA BB  E MajorE BB A augmentedA BB
When you were mine

Verse:

E MajorE        BB
 When you were mine
A augmentedA     BB      B/G# BB  E MajorE
 You were kinda sorta my  best friend
     BB       A augmentedA
So I was blind (so bli-ind)
        BB
I let you fool around...

E MajorE     BB
 I never cared (didn't care)
A augmentedA         BB    B/G# BB E MajorE
 I never was the kind to make a fuss
      BB
When he was there
A augmentedA       BB        Asus2Asus2
 Sleeping in between the two of us

Chorus:

     BB
I know (I know)
            G# minorG#m     Asus2Asus2
That you're going with another guy
Asus2Asus2        BB
 Don't care (don't care)
             G# minorG#m    Asus2Asus2
‘cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
Asus2Asus2          BB
 I love you more than I did when you were mine

Solo:

C# minorC#m G# minorG#m A augmentedA A majorA C# minorC#m G# minorG#m A augmentedA B7B7

Verse:

E MajorE        BB
 When you were mine
A augmentedA    BB     B/G#  BB E MajorE
 U were all I ever wanted to do
   BB
Now I spend my time
A augmentedA            E MajorE     Asus2Asus2
 Following him whenever he's with you

Chorus:

     BB
I know (I know)
            G# minorG#m     Asus2Asus2
That you're going with another guy
Asus2Asus2        BB
 Don't care (don't care)
             G# minorG#m      Asus2Asus2
‘cause I love you, baby, that's no lie
Asus2Asus2          BB
 I love you more than I did
       E MajorE  BB  A augmentedA  BB
When you were mine

E MajorE  BB        A augmentedA    BB
   (When you were mine, yeah,
  E MajorE   BB        A augmentedA
oh no)  (Love you, baby Love you, baby
       E MajorE  BB A augmentedA BB
When you were mine)

Outro:

E MajorE BB A augmentedA BB

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