Great Song. I grew up loving it and it's super fun to play.
I play it with mostly bar chords to give it some flavor. Go ahead and
throw in some hammer-ons and pull-offs and make it fun.
Perfect example how you can use key changes and simple progressions
to make clever songs that are also catchy.
Also an example of how they just don't make 'em like they used to;)
Enjoy!
OMD
If You Leave
Standard tuning
Intro:
(repeat)
Verse 1:(Key of F)
If you leave, don't leave now
Please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night
Then we'll go our separate ways
With hours left time on our sides
Now it's fading fast
Every second every moment
We've got to--we've gotta make it last
Chorus 1: (Key change to D)
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends someday
Verse 2: (Key change to G)
If you leave I won't cry
I won't waste one single day
But if you leave don't look back
I'll be running the other way
Seven years went under the bridge
Like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now
You've got to--you've gotta say you will
Chorus 2:
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd meet again
Sax solo in E....
Chorus 3: (Key change to D)
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd still be friends
Chorus 4: (Key change to E)
I touch you once I touch you twice
I won't let go at any price
I need you now like I needed you then
You always said we'd meet again some day
Break: (Key change to F)
, , ,
Outro: (Key change )
If you leave
Oh if you leave
Oh if you leave
Don't look back
Don't look back................