Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
Key: :[A] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)
CHORUS:
[Bm7] Strumming my pain with her
[Em7] fingers
[A] Singing my life with her
[D] words,
[Bm7] Killing me softly with
[Em7] her song,
Killing me
[A] softly with
[G] her song,
Telling my
[D] whole life with
[G] her words,
Killing me
[Bsus4] softly, with her
[B open] song.
VERSE 1:
[Em7] I heard she
[A] sang a good song,
[D] I heard she
[G] had a style
[Em7] and so I
[A] came to see her, and
[Bm7] listen for a while.
[Em7] And there she
[A] was this young girl,
[D] a stranger
[F#7] 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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