Something You Get Through Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays430

Something You Get Through by Willie Nelson is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords F, G, C, G7, F7M, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
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16
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  			Intro: F  G  F  G 
  
Verso 1:
C                  G 
When you lose the one you love 
C                G             G7 
You think your world has ended 
C                G                       C 
You think your world will be a waste of life 
             G 
Without them in it 
F7M              Em 
You feel there's no way to go on 
Dm              C 
Life is just a sad, sad song 
F           Em 
But love is bigger than us all 
Dm          G 
The end is not the end at all 
  

                            F 
It's not somethin' you get over 
G                             C 
But it's somethin' you get through 
                     F 
It's not ours to be taken 
G                           C 
It's just a thing we get to do 
  
           F 
Life goes on and on 
    Em 
And when it's gone 
Dm                    C 
It lives in someone new 
                            F7M  F 
It's not somethin' you get over 
G                       C 
But it's somethin' you get through 
  
( C  G  C  G7 ) 
( C  G  C  G ) 
( F7M  Em  Dm  C ) 
( F  G  C ) 
  
Verso 2:
                            F 
It's not somethin' you get over 
G                       C 
But it's somethin' you get through 
                      F 
It's not ours to be taken 
G                     C 
It's just a thing we get to do 
          F 
Life goes on and on 
              Em 
And when it's gone 
Dm                   C 
It lives in someone new 
                        F 
It's not somethin' you get over 
G                             C 
But it's somethin' you get through 
                           F 
It's not somethin' you get over 
G                       C 
But it's somethin' you get through 
  
Final: F7M  G  C 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante