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Leaving on a Jet Plane

John Denver

Strum: D   D U   U D U  (Folk Strum)

       1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

            C                             F

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go

        C                      F
I’m standin’ here outside your door

    C                       Am                G   G7
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

             C                            F
But the dawn is breakin’, it’s early morn
        C                         F

The taxi’s waitin’, he’s blowin’ his horn

       C             F                          G   G7
Already I’m so lonesome, I could die

                  C                    F
There’s so many times I’ve let you down

        C                      F
So many times I’ve played around

   C                    Am                     G     G7
I tell you now, they don’t mean a thing

            C                 F
Every place I go, I’ll think of you

          C                    F
Every song I sing, I’ll sing for you

            C                     Am                      G        G7
When I come back, I’ll bring your wedding ring

Chorus

  C                        F
Now the time has come to leave you
C                       F

One more time, let me kiss you

          C                    Am
Then close your eyes, I’ll be on my way

  C                       F
Dream about the days to come

         C                      F
When I won’t have to leave alone

    C                   Am                   G  G7
About the times, I won’t have to say

Chorus

Repeat last three lines of chorus