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Song title:       Killing Me Softly
Original Album:	  Killing Me Softly

Words and Music by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel
Copyright © 1973 Atlantic Records Limited
Published by WEA/Atlantic Music Publishing Limited

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
I once wrote, as a teenager, alternative (scatalogical) lyrics to this song. 
I probably shouldn't make these available here as we should all endeavour to
Keep the Web Clean imho. Here is Charles's and Norman's version that became an
astonishing hit for Roberta Flack.


CHORUS:
Chords:
Em  022000    G  320003    C     332010
Am  x02210    A  x02220    Esus4 022200
D7  xx0212    D  xx0232    E     022100

Em                         Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers,
D7                       G
Singing my life with his words,
Em                     A
Killing me softly with his song,
           D           C
Killing me softly with his song,
           G               C
Telling my whole life with his words.
           Esus4           E
Killing me softly with his song.


VERSE1:
Chords:
Am7  x02010    Em  022000
D    xx0232    D7  xx0212
G    320003    B7  x21202
C    332010

Am7          D                 G                C
  I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style
Am7        D                   Em
  And so I came to see him and listen for a while.
Am7            D7             G      B7
  And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes.


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE2:
Notes;
Play as for VERSE1.

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.


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE3:
Notes;
Play as for VERSE1.

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.


[repeat CHORUS]