Tab for Verse:
C F C F
| ---0-0---0-0---0-0---1-1- | ---0-0---0-0---0-0---1-1- |
| ---1-1---1-1---1-1---1-1- | ---1-1---1-1---1-1---1-1- |
| ---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2- | ---0-0---0-0---0-0---2-2- |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| -3-----2-----0----------- | -3-----2-----0----------- |
| -------------------1----- | -------------------1----- |
Tab for Chorus:
Em Am Em Am
| ----0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0- | ----0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0- |
| ----0-0---0-0---1-1---1-1- | ----0-0---0-0---1-1---1-1- |
| ----0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2- | ----0-0---0-0---2-2---2-2- |
| ----2-2---2-2---2-2-2----- | ----2-2---2-2---2-2-2----- |
| --------2-----0----------- | --------2-----0----------- |
| --0----------------------- | --0----------------------- |
C F C F
C F
I've been away
C F
a year and a day
C F
You recognize love after the fact
C F
You did what you did and that was that
Em Am
Don't say words
Em Am
that you don't mean
Em G C F C F
When I'm gone, please speak well of me
C F
Looking back now
C F
I only wish I had been kinder
C F
Did I ever know love, did I ever know love?
C F
And could I have been blinder?
Em Am
Don't say words
Em Am
that you don't mean
Em G C F C F
When I'm gone, please speak well of me
Em Am
Don't hold back
Em Am
all your love
F G
for someday, for someday
C F
I would say that I'm sorry
C F
if it would do any good
C F
But to never regret means you have to forget
C F
and I don't think that I could
Em Am
Don't say words
Em Am
that you don't mean
Em Em
When I'm gone, When I'm gone,
Em G C F
When I'm gone, please speak well of me
C F C F C F C