Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
Key: :[Db] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)
CHORUS:
[D#m7] Strumming my pain with her
[Abm7] fingers
[Db] Singing my life with her
[Gb] words,
[D#m7] Killing me softly with
[Abm7] her song,
Killing me
[Db] softly with
[B] her song,
Telling my
[Gb] whole life with
[B] her words,
Killing me
[D#sus4] softly, with her
[D# open] song.
VERSE 1:
[Abm7] I heard she
[Db] sang a good song,
[Gb] I heard she
[B] had a style
[Abm7] and so I
[Db] came to see her, and
[D#m7] listen for a while.
[Abm7] And there she
[Db] was this young girl,
[Gb] a stranger
[A#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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