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LETTING GO

   Transcribed by Wellington Gomes
(Brazil)
Artist: Barry Gibb
Song: LETTING GO
Composers: Barry Gibb / George Bitzer
Year of Composing: 1986
Year of Recording: 1986
Album: Hawks
Year of Releasing: 1988
Track: 10  --  Running: 3'38"

    G   G5+                       G6   G5+
A child     that hides behind a chair,
              G         G/F           Cmaj7
almost afraid   to grow     without you there.
        G/B                 Am7
Whisper words that make you see
C/D              D           D7  G
    what you've come to mean to me.

   G    G5+                  G6       G5+
A voice     that rises from the heart,
                 G        G/F          Cmaj7
the hunger that seizes me     and tears my soul apart.
            G/B       Am7
And serving only to renew
C/D        D           D7      G
    how I came to feel    for you.

   G                  F#5+
Through your love I'd seen forever.
F13          E7
We became as one.
        Cm             D
I never saw you turn away.
            Gmaj7
My love was blind.
     Bb                 F
You call me when your storm is over.
Bb              F              Gm7
   Crying over love that I can give you.
         Bb
When the night is the colder.
C         D      E
  Holding on to me.

            Am
'Cause it's so hard letting go.
        Fmaj7
And it's so hard not to cry.
          Am7                 Fmaj7
With your face that lies, you memorize
          E7sus4  E7  E7sus4  E7
the reason why.
     Am7
And when the love is gone
                     Dm7
then one of us will know
   E7sus4     E7     Am7  D7(9)  Am7  D7(9)
it's so hard letting go.

 G              F#5+
Foolish that I still believe
     F13                E7
that love should never die.
   E/G#     Eb6
It makes me cry to witness
  D             Gmaj7
where the story ends.
Bb             F
All the lovers in the world will
Bb            F                Gm7
echo all the words that I will leave you,
          Bb
When the night is lonely
C       D        E
  only goes to show...

             Am7
...that it's so hard letting go.
        Fmaj7
And it's so hard not to cry.
       Am7      Fmaj7
And I kneel for yesterday,
             E7sus4  E7  E7sus4  E7  E/G#
when you were mine.
     Am7
And when the love is gone,
                     Dm7
then one of us will know
    E7sus4    E7
it's so hard letting go.

Am7 D7(9) Fmaj7 G A

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