Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
Key: :[Bb] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)
CHORUS:
[Cm7] Strumming my pain with her
[Fm7] fingers
[Bb] Singing my life with her
[Eb] words,
[Cm7] Killing me softly with
[Fm7] her song,
Killing me
[Bb] softly with
[Ab] her song,
Telling my
[Eb] whole life with
[Ab] her words,
Killing me
[Csus4] softly, with her
[C open] song.
VERSE 1:
[Fm7] I heard she
[Bb] sang a good song,
[Eb] I heard she
[Ab] had a style
[Fm7] and so I
[Bb] came to see her, and
[Cm7] listen for a while.
[Fm7] And there she
[Bb] was this young girl,
[Eb] a stranger
[G7] to my eyes.
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VERSE 2:
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt she found my letters, and read each one out loud.
I prayed that she would finish, but she just kept right on.
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VERSE 3:
She sang as if she knew me, in all my dark despair.
And then she looked right through me, as if I wasn't there.
And she just kept on singing, singing clear and strong
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INSTRUMENTAL: [over CHORUS]
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