Song title: Bye Bye Love
Performed by: Simon and Garfunkel
Album: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Chords interpreted by: Hans Julian Sloman
Sound available on YouTube /watch?v=d0gLnfSgdLA
The song seems to be using only the chords B, F# and C# (and E5 in the intro);
however there are multiple ways of creating those sounds.
Another version available on here tells you to play
A, E, and B, (and D5) while using a capo in 2nd fret.
However getting from E to B can be awkward for beginners,
so here s a version that I came up with that might make it
easier for you, while still being able to play along with the song
(e.g. not in a different key):
Capo 7th fret
INTRO:
[CHORUS]
Bye bye, love.
Bye bye, happiness.
Hello, loneliness.
I think I m gonna cry.
Bye bye, love.
Bye bye, sweet caress.
Hello, emptiness.
I feel like I could die.
Bye bye, my love, goodbye.
[VERSE 1]
There goes my baby
With someone new.
She sure looks happy;
I sure am blue.
She was my baby
till he stepped in.
Goodbye, to romance
That might have been.
(CHORUS)
[VERSE 2]
I m through with romance.
I m through with love.
I m through with counting
The stars above,
And here s the reason
That I m so free:
My lovin baby
Is through with me.
(CHORUS)
(repeat and fade) Goodbye, my love goodbye.Â
(some more notes:
-7th fret is quite far up for a capo, so it only works on good acoustics or
electric guitars
-play A5 simply like a normal A except you only hit the A, D and G string/or
you can mute the B string.
-If you don t care for playing/singing along with the record, there are lots
of easy variations available (e.g. Transposing, with change of key).
For example you could play C, G, and D; or D, A, and E; or you can play the
version described here without a capo.