You Don't Have To Cry Chords
You Don't Have To Cry by Crosby, Stills and Nash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, F, C and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D
F C
In the mornin' when you rise
G D
Do you think of me, and how you left me cryin'?
F C G
Are you thinkin' of telephones, and managers,
D
And where you got to be at noon?
F C G
You are living a reality I left years ago
D
It quite nearly killed me.
F C
In the long run it will make you cry.
G D
Make you crazy and old before your time.
F C
And the difference between me and you.
G
I won't argue right or wrong,
D C
But I have time to cry, my baby
G D
You don't have to cry,
D C G D
I said cry my baby, you don't have to cry
D C G D
I said cry my baby, you don't have to cry
F C
In the mornin' when you rise
G D
Do you think of me, and how you left me cryin'?
F C G
Are you thinkin' of telephones, and managers,
D
And where you got to be at noon?
F C G
You are living a reality I left years ago
D
It quite nearly killed me.
F C
In the long run it will make you cry.
G D
Make you crazy and old before your time.
F C
And the difference between me and you.
G
I won't argue right or wrong,
D C
But I have time to cry, my baby
G D
You don't have to cry,
D C G D
I said cry my baby, you don't have to cry
D C G D
I said cry my baby, you don't have to cry