It's Over

Words & Music by Jimmie Rodgers
Recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1966*


    A              A6      A       AM7              AM7/6
If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay

      AM7     A7                 A7/6   A7
This hour of love we share would always be

         D9          Dm     Dm7    Asus4           A
There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light

    Asus4    G          E7       A6  A
And make us realize our night is o - ver.


A              A6       A         AM7           AM7/6   AM7
When you walk away from me, there is no place to put my hand

   A7              A7/6    A7       D9        D    D6        D9
Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land

  Asus4      A              Asus4   G              E7
I watch you walk away -- somehow I have to let you go

         A6   A   AM7   A7
Now it's o - ver.


D                 D6    D     DM7               D6       DM7
If you knew just how I really feel, you might return and yet

       D7          D6        D7     G9        G      G9        Gm
There are so many times that people have to love and then forget;

           D9               D
Oh, there might have been a way; 

  Dsus4    D       E               A7       D6    D     G  D  Bm7-5  E7
Somehow I have to force myself to say, "It's o - ver."


A            A6     A      AM7            AM7/6     AM7
So I turn my back, turn my collar to the wind,

A7           A7/6     A7     D9      D        D6    D9
Move along in silence trying not to think at all;

   A           Asus4       A       G              E7
I set my feet before me, walk the silent street before me,

         A6   A
Now it's o - ver.


A              A6      A       AM7              AM7/6
If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay

      AM7     A7                 A7/6   A7
This hour of love we share would always be

         D9          Dm     Dm7    Asus4           A
There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light

    Asus4    G          E7       A6  A
And make us realize our night is o - ver.

     G    G/F#  Em7  G/B     A
It's o        -             ver.



Although Elvis Presley would record the song in 1973 -- and in all honesty, it's probably his version that is better remembered now -- I don't believe either he (or Eddy Arnold, who recorded it two years after Rodgers) ever captured the feel of the song as well as the original.


 
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.