Niall Horan – If You Leave Me Chords on Piano & Ukulele

Niall Horan – If You Leave Me Chords on Piano & Ukulele

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[Intro]
C G Am
       C G Am
(Do it)
(Yeah, yeah)

[Verse 1]
C
Met you in a dream
Chase you through
           G
the street
Am
Turned around and
 you were gone
C
Woke up in a daze
                      G
Moonlight on your face
   Am
My heart was racin'
at the thought

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[Chorus]
       F        Am
If you leave me
      G
Oh, I think that
I just might lose it
     F      Am      G
 completely,  yeah
       F        Am
If you leave me
         G
Hope you know that
you're sentencing me
                F
To a life on my knees
Am
I don't know who
         G
I would be

[Post-Chorus]
           F      Am G
If you ever leave me
           F      Am G
If you ever leave me

[Verse 2]
C
I'm in too deep
                    G
Swimmin' in your sea
Am
  Tell me where
you want to go
C
I don't wanna change
                       G
Every or any other way
Am
Promise that you'll
stay this close

[Chorus]
       F        Am
If you leave me
      G
Oh, I think that I just
                  F
might lose it completely,
Am      G
  yeah
       F        Am
If you leave me
         G
Hope you know that
 you're sentencing me
                F
To a life on my knees
Am                       G
I don't know who I would be

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[Post-Chorus]
           F      Am G
If you ever leave me
           F      Am G
If you ever leave me

[Instrument]
C  G Am

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[Bridge]
       C
Wakin' up with you
gone in the mornin'
G        Am
Goin' to sleep with
 you not here at night
          C
Oh, these feelings,
they would
just be so foreign
G         Am
Can't you stay for
the rest of my life?

[Chorus]
       F        Am
If you leave me
      G
Oh, I think that
I just might lose
        F      Am      G
it completely,  yeah
           F
And if you leave me
      Am
(And if you leave me)
         G
Hope you know that
you're sentencing me
                F
To a life on my knees
Am
I don't know who
         G
I would be
 (Don't know who I would be)

[Post-Chorus]
And if you ever
 F      Am         G
 leave me (If you ever)
                 F
Yeah, if you ever
      Am         G
leave me (If you ever)
Yeah, if you ever
F      Am         G
 leave me (If you ever)

[Outro]
If you ever, you ever,
         F Am
you ever
G
 If you ever,
you ever, you ever

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How to play If You Leave Me: key, chords and progression

These are If You Leave Me chords by Niall Horan on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

To play If You Leave Me by Niall Horan, think in C major (no sharps or flats). It takes 4 chords: C, G, Am and F.

Listen for F – Am – G – F (IV – vi – V – IV in C major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is fah – lah – soh – fah. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 5th fret and play the shapes G, D, Em, C (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 75% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.

Chord diagrams

C chord on guitar (x32010)
CC E G
G chord on guitar (320003)
GG B D
Am chord on guitar (x02210)
AmA C E
F chord on guitar (133211)
FF A C

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If You Leave Me chords: questions

What key is If You Leave Me in?

If You Leave Me by Niall Horan is in the key of C major (no sharps or flats).

What chords are in If You Leave Me?

If You Leave Me uses 4 chords: C, G, Am, F.

What is the chord progression of If You Leave Me?

The main progression is F – Am – G – F (IV – vi – V – IV).

Is If You Leave Me easy to play on guitar?

Yes, with a capo: put a capo on the 5th fret and play the shapes G, D, Em, C (100% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 75% without a capo).

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