Best Of My Love - The Eagles
Written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John David Souther
Single released Nov 1974
From "On The Border" album released Mar 1974
Album version, standard chord shapes (see end)
0:00 Intro (slow)
Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 C Fmaj7b5 Fmaj7 Fmaj7b5 Fmaj7
x32000 x32010 xx3200 xx3210
Repeat Intro
0:22 Verse 1
C C Dm Dm
Every night, I'm lying in bed, holding you close in my dreams,
C C Dm Dm
Thinking about all the things that we said, and coming apart at the seams,
Em Dm Em F/G
We tried to talk it over, but the words come out too rough,
C Dm C G7
I know you were trying, to give me the best of your love.
1:05 Verse 2
C C Dm Dm
Beautiful faces, and loud empty places, look at the way that we live,
C C Dm Dm
Wasting our time, on cheap talk and wine, left us so little to give,
Em Dm Em F/G pick appreg.
That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud, that we could never rise above, 3x0003
C Dm C G7
But here in my heart, I give you the best of my love.
1:49 Chorus 1
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love, (you get the best of my love),
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love, (you get the best of my love),
2:12 Bridge
Fm7 Fm7 C C
I'm going back in time and it's a sweet dream,
Fm7 Fm7 Dm G7
It was a quiet night and I would be all right if I could go on sleeping.
2:32 Verse 3
C C Dm Dm
But every morning I wake up and worry, what's gonna happen today?
C C Dm Dm
You see it your way, and I see it mine, but we both see it slippin' away,
Em Dm Em Dm G7
You know we always had each other baby, I guess that wasn't enough, o-o-ohh,
C Dm C G7
But here in my heart, I give you the best of my love.
3:17 Chorus 2
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love,
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', you get the best of my love,
3:38 Chorus 3
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', (every night and day), you get the best of my love,
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', (oh-oh, oh-oh), you get the best of my love,
3:59 Chorus 4
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', (you get the best of my love), you get the best of my love,
(start fading)
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', (mm-mm-mm-mm), you get the best of my love,
4:21 Chorus 5
C C Dm Dm
Oh-oh-oh, ohhhh, sweet darlin', (you got it, you got it), you get the best of my love.
4:30 End
Cmaj7 x32000
C x32010
Fmaj7b5 xx3200
Fmaj7 x32010
Dm xx0231
Em 022000
F/G 3x3211
G7 320001
Fm7 131111
Guitar Tab arrangement by Glenn Baddeley, Original 13 Sep 2007, Revised 7 Oct 2016
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