Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
Key: :[Eb] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)
CHORUS:
[Fm7] Strumming my pain with his
[Bbm7] fingers
[Eb] Singing my life with his
[Ab] words,
[Fm7] Killing me softly with
[Bbm7] his song,
Killing me
[Eb] softly with
[Db] his song,
Telling my
[Ab] whole life with
[Db] his words,
Killing me
[Fsus4] softly, with his
[F open] song.
VERSE 1:
[Bbm7] I heard he
[Eb] sang a good song,
[Ab] I heard he
[Db] had a style
[Bbm7] and so I
[Eb] came to see him, and
[Fm7] listen for a while.
[Bbm7] And there he
[Eb] was this young boy,
[Ab] a stranger
[C7] to my eyes.
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VERSE 2:
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt he found my letters, and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on.
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VERSE 3:
He sang as if he knew me, in all my dark despair.
And then he looked right through me, as if I wasn't there.
And he just kept on singing, singing clear and strong
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INSTRUMENTAL: [over CHORUS]
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