• Song:

    Jana Kramer - I Wont Give Up

  • Artist:

    Misc Unsigned Bands

I heard this song on One Tree Hill and instantly fell in love with it - Jana Kramer has 
such a beautiful voice! This is my first one of these and so the chords may not be 
totally accurate but I tried!

Also, I taught myself to play the guitar (the piano's what I usually play) and so don't 
really know about tabs and things but I'll try to describe how I play it at different 
points instead of using the proper notation!

Introduction
(Whilst doing D Chord fingering) I pluck these strings:

D B E G B D (teeny pause) 
E(2nd fret) E(3rd fret) E(5th fret) E(5th fret)

(If you listen to her performance it should be easier to understand and then for the 
verses and choruses I tend to play a similar thing to the first part of the introduction)


D                        A                      G
Don't tell me love is something you won't try again
        A
That's just not true
D                    A                      G
But baby right now maybe what you need's a friend
          A
Well I'm here for you

D                   A
I will be by your side
             Em                            G
If ever you fall deep in the dead of the night
              D
Whenever you call
                        A
And I won't change my mind
                Em     G
No I'll see you through
        G        A
And I won't give up

(I like to pluck the E and D strings together twice for the G, then the A and D chords 
twice for the A chord - she sort of does that in the acoustic version ... sort of)

        G        A
No I won't give up
   G          A     D
I won't give up on you

(Repeat introduction)

D                      A                       G
You need someone who knows you from the inside out
     A
The way I do
D                       A                  G
I've seen you walk the wire never looking down
     A
I believe in you

D                   A
I will be by your side
             Em                            G
If ever you fall deep in the dead of the night
              D
Whenever you call
                        A
And I won't change my mind
                Em     G
No I'll see you through
        G        A
And I won't give up
        G        A
No I won't give up
   G          A     D
I won't give up on you

D                   A
I will be by your side
             Em                            G
If ever you fall deep in the dead of the night

        G        A
And I won't give up
        G        A
No I won't give up
   G          A     D
I won't give up on you

         G        A
You can call it love
       G          A     D (slow, gentle strum)
But I won't give up on you



Hopefully it's not too badly wrong! Enjoy :)

ELAMusic xo
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