SAVE TONIGHT
Original Tempo: 120bpm - Video Tempo: 60bpm
Below is beginner friendly guitar lesson of Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry using full open chords with a simplified strumming pattern as well as a 'one finger version' (for ultra beginners). On this page are chord diagrams, strumming patterns and chords & lyrics with timestamps designed to accompany my YouTube videos.
FULL CHORDS
ONE FINGER VERSION
CHORDS
ONE FINGER CHORDS
FULL CHORDS
STRUMMING PATTERN
CHORDS & LYRICS
INTRO (0:00)
Am |F |C |G | (x4)
VERSE 1 (0:16)
Am F C G
Go on and close the curtains
Am F C G
'cause all we need is candlelight
Am F C G
You and me and the bottle of wine
Am F C G
and hold you tonight
VERSE 2 (0:32)
Am F C G
Well, we know I'm going away
Am F C G
And how I wish, I wish it weren't so
Am F C G
so take this wine and drink with me
Am F C G
let's delay our misery...
CHORUS 1 (0:48)
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
VERSE 3 (1:04)
Am F C G
There's a log on the fire
Am F C G
and it burns like me for you
Am F C G
Tomorrow comes with one desire
Am F C G
to take me away
VERSE 4 (1:20)
Am F C G
It ain't easy to say goodbye
Am F C G
darling please don't start to cry
Am F C G
'cause girl you know I've got to go
Am F C G
and Lord I wish it wasn't so
CHORUS 2 (1:36)
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
GUITAR SOLO (1:52)
Am |F |C |G | (x4)
VERSE 5/QUIET (2:09)
Am F C G
Tomorrow comes to take me away
Am F C G
I wish that I, that I could stay
Am F C G
Girl you know I've got to go
Am F C G
and Lord I wish it wasn't so
CHORUS 3 (2:24)
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
Am F C G
Save tonight And fight the break of dawn
Am F C G
Come tomorrow Tomorrow I'll be gone
CHORUS 4 (2:40)
OUTRO (2:57)