Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
^{Key: :[D#] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)}

CHORUS:
[Fm7] Strumming my pain with her [A#m7] fingers
[D#] Singing my life with her [G#] words,
[Fm7] Killing me softly with [A#m7] her song,
Killing me [D#] softly with [C#] her song,
Telling my [G#] whole life with [C#] her words,
Killing me [Fsus4] softly, with her [F open] song.

VERSE 1:
[A#m7] I heard she [D#] sang a good song, [G#] I heard she [C#] had a style
[A#m7] and so I [D#] came to see her, and [Fm7] listen for a while.
[A#m7] And there she [D#] was this young girl, [G#] a stranger [C7] 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]