Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
Key: :[D] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)
CHORUS:
[Em7] Strumming my pain with her
[Am7] fingers
[D] Singing my life with her
[G] words,
[Em7] Killing me softly with
[Am7] her song,
Killing me
[D] softly with
[C] her song,
Telling my
[G] whole life with
[C] her words,
Killing me
[Esus4] softly, with her
[E open] song.
VERSE 1:
[Am7] I heard she
[D] sang a good song,
[G] I heard she
[C] had a style
[Am7] and so I
[D] came to see her, and
[Em7] listen for a while.
[Am7] And there she
[D] was this young girl,
[G] a stranger
[B7] 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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