Goodnight Irene chords by Keith Richards

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

G+G D7D7 G+G D7D7



🎸 Chorus:
G+G        D7D7           G+G
Well Irene, good night Irene
Irene goodnight
G+G          C majorC
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
   D7D7      G+G
I'll see you in my dreams

🎸 Verse 1:
G+G          D7D7
Last Saturday I got married
            G+G
Me and the wife settled down
             C majorC
Now me and my wife we Versed
  D7D7           G+G
I think I'll go out on the town

🎸 Verse 2:
G+G              D7D7
Cause sometimes I live in the country
            G+G
Sometimes I live in the town
      G7G7       C majorC
Sometimes I take that great notion
  D7D7          G+G
to jump in the river and drown

🎸 Chorus:
G+G     D7D7          G+G
Irene goodnight Irene
Irene goodnight
           C majorC
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
   D7D7      G+G
I'll see you in my dreams


🎸 Verse :
G+G       D7D7
I love Irene
God knows I do
                G+G
I'll love her till the seas run dry
         G7G7  C7C7   C majorC
If Irene should, ever turn me down
C7C7    D7D7      G+G
I'd take morphine and die

🎸 Chorus:
G+G     D7D7          G+G
Irene goodnight Irene
Irene goodnight
           C majorC
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
   D7D7      G+G
I'll see you in my dreams

🎸 Verse :
G+G         D7D7
Stop rambling, stop gambling
           G+G
Stop staying out all night
        G7G7      C majorC
Go home to your wife and your baby
  D7D7          G+G
And stay by your fireside bright

🎸 Chorus:
  G+G     D7D7          G+G
So Irene goodnight Irene
Irene goodnight
           C majorC
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
   D7D7      G+G
I'll see you in my dreams

🎸 Outro:
G+G          C majorC
Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene
   D7D7      G+G
I'll see you in my dreams