All By Myself

Words by Eric Carmen
Music Based on Serge Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
Recorded by Eric Carmen, 1975 (#2)*


A9          A            A9+5   Dm6      A   A/G#   F#
When I was young I never needed an - y - one

           C#m7-5   F#7      Bm    Dm6
And makin' love was just for fun --

      Fdim E7   A    F#7   Dm6 - Fdim - E7/6 - E7
Those days are gone.


A9        A             A9+5      Dm6           A   A/G#   F#
Livin' alone, I think of all the friends I've known;

          C#m7-5    F#7        Bm    Dm6
But when I dial the tel - e - phone,

    Fdim   E7   A    F#7   Dm6 - Fdim - E7/6 - E7
No - bod - y's home.



Refrain:

A   AM7    C#m7-5  F#       F#7
All by my - self      don't wan - na be 

Bm7 Edim Bm7-5   Dm+7 Dm6       E7
All  by    my  - self an - y - more;

A   AM7    C#m7-5  F#       F#7
All by my - self      don't wan - na live

Bm7 Edim Bm7-5  F7  Dm6          E7
All  by   my - self    an - y - more.


A9         A                  A9+5    Dm6        A   A/G#   F#
Hard to be sure; some times I feel so in - se - cure,

            C#m7-5   F#7    Bm    Dm6
And love, so distant and obscure,

  Fdim   E7   A    F#7   Dm6 - Fdim - E7/6 - E7
Remains the cure.



Repeat Refrain:

For the record, Carmen recorded and released his album in 1975, but this song didn't reach #2 on the charts until 1976. And Carmen is by no means the only contemporary artist to borrow from Rachmaninoff's score. Two other best-selling pop singles were created out of the same piano concerto: "Full Moon and Empty Arms" was both by Frank Sinatra and by Perry Como; "I Will Bring You Music" was a later adaptation.

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.