Don’t Say Goodbye If You Love Me

Jim and Jesse

Written by Jimmie Davis and Bonnie Dodd

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G                        C
Don’t say goodbye if you love me
     G                        D7
For ‘twould make my heart overflow
G                         C
Kiss my lips once ere you leave me
     G             D7           G
Just don’t say goodbye when you go

Verse 2

                           C
They tell me today you are going
    G                       D7
Far away just to make you a name
     G                      C
They tell me that you’re discontented
    G            D7            G
And that you are searching for fame

Verse 1

G                        C
Don’t say goodbye if you love me
     G                        D7
For ‘twould make my heart overflow
G                         C
Kiss my lips once ere you leave me
     G             D7           G
Just don’t say goodbye when you go

Verse 3

                              C
Somehow I can’t realize we’re parting
       G                        D7
I have grown used to having you near
    G                            C
The strings in my heart love are breakin’
       G             D7         G
I just can’t say goodbye to you dear

Verse 1

G                        C
Don’t say goodbye if you love me
     G                        D7
For ‘twould make my heart overflow
G                         C
Kiss my lips once ere you leave me
     G             D7           G
Just don’t say goodbye when you go

Verse 4

                            C
Each night as I kneel by my bedside
       G                                  D7
I will pray one sweet prayer for just for you
       G                      C
I will ask of the kind one in heaven
        G             D7               G
Just to make all your dreams dear come true

Verse 1

G                        C
Don’t say goodbye if you love me
     G                        D7
For ‘twould make my heart overflow
G                         C
Kiss my lips once ere you leave me
     G             D7           G
Just don’t say goodbye when you go