Be My Lifes Companion Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays436

Be My Lifes Companion by Hank Thompson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7, Fm and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			
C                      F         C 
Want no silver threads among the gold 
                                 G7 
Want no silver threads among the gold 
C                                F      Fm 
Want no silver threads want some action instead 
C              G7                C 
Want no silver threads among the gold 

                                  G7 
Be my life's companion and you'll never grow old 
                                  C 
I'll love you so much that you'll never grow old 
                                    G7 
When there's joy in living you just never grow old 
                                      C 
You've got to stay young cause you'll never grow old 

F                            C 
People who are lonely can be old at 33 
D7                         G7 
Don't let it happen to you don't let it happen to me 
      C                           G7 
Be my life's companion and you'll never grow old 
                                C 
You'll never grow old no you'll never grow old 

F                                C 
Love and youth and happiness are yours to have and hold 
      F                           G7         C 
Be my life's companion and you'll never grow old 

F                                  C 
I know a man who's lonely and he's old at 33 
F                  C 
Nobody wants to be old at 33 
F                             C 
Your disposition sours like a lemon on a tree 
D7                         G7 
Don't let it happen to you don't let it happen to me 

      C                           G7 
Be my life's companion and you'll never grow old 
                                  C 
I'll love you so much that you'll never grow old 
F                                C 
Love and youth and happiness are yours to have and hold 
      F                      C 
Be my life's companion be my life's companion 
           F      G7   C 
And you'll ne-ver grow old 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante