What Now, My Love

Words & Music by Pierre Delanoe & Gilbert Becaud
English lyrics by Carl Sigman
Recorded by Jane Morgan, 1962 (Instrumental version also recorded by Herb Alpert, 1966)


Em7  G/B A7sus4  D   G  D Em               G    D
What now, my   love?      Now that you've left me,

          Em7 G/B  A7sus4   Em7    A7     D    G    D
How can I live           through another day,

Em7  G/B A7sus4 D     G  D  Em        G   D
Watch-ing  my  dreams      turn into ash-es,

        Em7 G/B  A7sus4 Em7   A7      D    DM7    D7
And my hopes           into bits of clay?

             G   G/F#  Em7   A7         F#m      Bm
Once I could see,          once I could feel;

        G   G/F#      A7sus4  - A7    D     DM7     D7
Now I'm numb,    I've become       unreal.

            Gm     A7           F#m    Bm
I walk the night      without a goal,

                 G    G+7  G6  Em7 A7sus4   -   A7
Stripped of my heart,      my       soul.



Em7      A7sus4  D   G   D Em             G   D
What now, my   love?        Now that it's o-ver,

           Em7 G/B  A7sus4 Em7    A7    D    G    D
I feel the world          closing in on me.

Em7  G/B  A7sus4 D   G    D Em          G   D
Here come  the stars        tumbling around me,

                Em7 G/B  A7sus4           A7        D   DM7   D7
And there's the sky            where the sea should be.

              G    G/F#   Em7 A7              F#m    Bm
What now, my love?            Now that you're gone,

          G   G/F#    A7sus4 - A7  D   DM7  D7
I'd be a fool       to car  -  ry on;

               Gm  A7              F#m    Bm
No one would care,   no one would cry

             G    G+7   G6    Em7  A7sus4    A7
If I should live        or         die.



Coda:

Em7  G/B  A7sus4 D     G    D Em            G    D
What now,  my   love?         Now there is noth-ing,

Em7 G/B  A7sus4 Em7   A7       D    G    D
On - ly    my   last     good-bye.



 
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