Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me

Guitar chords and lyrics of Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds
Published 1985
Original key E

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Power chords

D E              D E    C D
Hey, hey, hey ,hey
D E

D E   C D

Em                      D
Won’t you come see about me?
A                      D
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby

Em          D
Tell me your troubles and doubts
A                                      D
Giving me everything inside and out and
Em                          D
Love’s strange so real in the dark
A                                               D
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Em                   D
Slow change may pull us apart
A                                    D
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Em               D                     A
Don’t You Forget About Me
D
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Em               D                      A        D
Don’t You Forget About Me

C
Will you stand above me?
G
Look my way, never love me
D
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
A
Down, down, down

C
Will you recognise me?
G
Call my name or walk on by
D
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
A
Down, down, down, down

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D E              D E    C D
Hey, hey, hey ,hey
D E

D E   C D

Em                         D
Don’t you try to pretend
A                         D
It’s my feeling we’ll win in the end
Em                            D
I won’t harm you or touch your defenses
A                    D
Vanity and security

Em                          D
Don’t you forget about me
A                         D
I’ll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Em           D
Going to take you apart
A                                         D
I’ll put us back together at heart, baby

Em                D                     A
Don’t You Forget About Me
D
Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t
Em              D                       A       D
Don’t You Forget About Me

D                       Em
As you walk on by
D                              A
Will you call my name?
D                        Em
As you walk on by
D                            A
Will you call my name?
D                             Em          D         A
When you walk away

D                             Em
Or will you walk away?
D                             A
Will you walk on by?
D                                Em
Come on – call my name
D                          A
Will you all my name?

I say :
Em          D         A        D
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