Are you lonesome tonight       (Listen to original song)

 

    A ~              A                                          D            A

1.      Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me I say?

                                               E

    Are you sorry we drifted apart?

                        A                                  D                   

    Does your memories cling to that bright summer day,

                 E                                                   A

    when I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

 

                   D                                A

    Like the rose on the vine I am clinging to you,

                                               E

    as I did when we drifted apart.

               A                                   D                  

    I am wishing you back to that little shack,

                 E                                                    A

    where I kissed you and called you sweetheart.

 

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                       A                                    D               A

2. Does the chair in your parlor seem empty and bare?

                                                          E

    Do you miss me and wish I was there?

                   A                                          D             

    Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again?

                    E                                          A

    Tell me, darling, are you lonesome tonight?

 

                  D                                          A

    Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me I say?

                                               E

    Are you sorry we drifted apart?

                        A                                  D                   

    Does your memories cling to that bright summer day,

                 E                                                   A

    when I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

 

+ A - D - A - E       - A - D - E - A

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  A                                 D                A

3. I have counted the days, I've counted the nights,

                                                           E

    I've counted the months and the years,

                  A                                     D            

    I have counted on you since we drifted apart,

                  E                                           A

    tell me, darling, are you lonesome tonight?

 

                  D                                          A

    Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me I say?

                                               E

    Are you sorry we drifted apart?

                        A                                  D                   

    Does your memories cling to that bright summer day,

                 E                                                   A

    when I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

 

 

Recorded 6/8/36 New York, NY

 

    (The Carter Family)