On My Own – simplified

On My OwnLes Misérables

Frances Ruffelle, 1980.

Composer: Claude-Michel Schonberg

Writers: Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, John Caird,

Trevor Nunn, Jean-Marc Natel

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G Am Bb Am
G Am Bb Am
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Bb Cm Dm Cm
Cm Dm7 Cm
Dm D
G     And now I’m Amall alone aBbgain
Nowhere to Amturn, no one to Bbgo to
Cm Dm Cm
Bb     Without a Cmhome, without a Dmfriend
Without a Cmface to say heCmllo to Dm7
Cm     And Cmnow the night is Dmnear
Now I can Dmake believe he’s Ghere
Am Bb Am
Dm     Sometimes I Emwalk alone at Fnight
When everyEmbody else is Fsleeping
Gm Am Gm
F     I think of Gmhim and then I’m Amhappy
With the Gmcompany I’m Gmkeeping
Am Bb
The city goes to Ambed
And I can Alive inside my Dhead
Em D G
Em7On my Down
PreEm7tending he’s beDside me Dmaj7
All aBmlone I E7walk with him till Amorning Amaj7
WithGout him I F#7feel his arms aBmround me
And Emwhen I lose my way I close my Em7eyes
And he has Afound me
In the Drain the Em7pavement shines like Dsilver Dmaj7
All the Bmlights are E7misty in the Ariver Amaj7
In the Gdarkness the F#7trees are full of Bmstarlight
And Emall I see is him and me forEm7ever and forAever
And I Bbknow it’s Ebmonly in my Bbmind Bbmaj7
That I’m Gmtalking to myGm7self and not to Ebhim
And alEmthough I know that he is Bblind B7
Still I Am7say there’s a C7way for us
I Flove him
But Gm7when the night is Fover Fmaj7
He is Dmgone, the G7river’s just a Criver Cmaj7
WithBbout him the Aworld around me Dmchanges
The Gmtrees are bare and everywhere
The Gm7streets are full of Cstrangers
I Flove him
But Gm7every day I’m F learning Fmaj7
All my Dmlife I’ve G7only been preCtending Cmaj7
WithBbout me, his Aworld will go on Dmturning
A Gmworld that’s full of happiness
That I have never Cknown
I Flove him
I F7love him
I Dm7love him
But Bbmonly on my Fown