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Song title:      Suddenly Seymour
Original Album:	 Little Shop of Horrors (Soundtrack)

Words by Howard Ashman; Music by Alan Menken
Copyright © 1982 Trunksong Music Ltd., Menken Music
Published by MCA Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Chords:
D/A  x0423x    Adim7  xx1212
A    x02220    E7sus4 020230 or x50455 or 7777xx


[play: 4/4| D/A  A | A | Adim7  A | A |

          | D/A  A | A | E7sus4  A | A | % | % | % |

          | D/A  A | A |



VERSE1:
Chords:
D/A  x0423x    Adim7  xx1212
A    x02220    E7sus4 020230 or x50455 or 7777xx


| D/A          A         | D/A         A
  Lift up your head, wash  off your mascara

| Adim7         A | %            | E7sus4    A
  Here, take my Kleenex, wipe that lipstick away


| D/A          A    | D/A          A
  Show me your face,  clean as the morning

| Adim7            A      | E7sus4          A
I know things were bad but  now    they're okay



CHORUS1:
Notes:
E/11 is U.S. notation for Eadd11, used here for reasons of space.
B/11 is U.S. notation for Badd11, used here for reasons of space.


Chords:
Bm7  x24232    A/C#  x42220    E       022100    C#7/F  xx3424
A7   x02020    A     x02220    B/11    xx2442    F#m    244222
D    xx0232    E/11  x02100    A7sus4  x02030    A/B    x2222x
A/11  xx0220   B/D#  xx1x02    B7/D#   xx1202    B7     x21202

E7sus4  020230 or x50455 or 7777xx
D/A     x00232


    Bm7 A7  D      | A/11 | D   |    A/C#  Bm7 | A       | E/11 | A
Sud-den-ly  Seymour          is standin'  be  - side you

  | A/C#  B/D#  | E      | B/11 | E     | D    A/C#  Bm7  A  | % | A7sus4
You don't need no make-up,          don't have to    pre-tend


| A   Bm7 A7 | D      | A/11 | D  |      B7/D#    A   |     C#7/F | F#m
  Sud-den-ly   Seymour          is here to    provide you

| %        | A/B | B7 | E7sus4 | %             | D/A   A
  Sweet understand-ing,          Seymour's your  friend



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
D/A  x0423x    Adim7  xx1212
A    x02220    E7sus4 020230 or x50455 or 7777xx


| D/A    A  | D/A        A
  Nobody ever treated me kindly

| Adim7      A    | E7sus4    A
  Daddy left early, momma was poor

| D/A        A         | D/A        A
  I'd meet a man and I'd follow him blindly

| Adim7         A          | E7sus4     A
  He'd snap his fingers. Me, I'd    say sure



CHORUS2:
Notes:
E/11 is U.S. notation for Eadd11, used here for reasons of space.
B/11 is U.S. notation for Badd11, used here for reasons of space.


Chords:
Bm7    x24232    A/C#  x42220    E       022100    C#7/F  xx3424
A7/C#  x42020    A     x02220    B/11    xx2442    F#m    244222
D      xx0232    E/11  x02100    A7sus4  x02030    A/B    x2222x
A/11   xx0220    B/D#  xx1x02    B7/D#   xx1202    B7     x21202

E7sus4  020230 or x50455 or 7777xx
D/A     x00232


    Bm7 A7/C#  D      | A/11 | D   |    A/C#  Bm7 | A      | E/11 | A
Sud-den-ly     Seymour          is standin'  be  - side me

 | A/C#  B/D#  | E      | B/11 | E        | D    A/C#  Bm7  A | A7sus4
He don't give me orders,           he don't condescend


| A   Bm7 A7/C# | D      | A/11 | D  |      B7/D#    A   |    C#7/F | F#m
  Sud-den-ly      Seymour          is here to    provide me

| %        | A/B | B7 | E7sus4 | %             | D/A   A
  Sweet understand-ing,          Seymour's your  friend



VERSE3:
Notes:
Play as for previous verses.

Chords:
D   xx0232    Adim7  xx1212 or x3424x
A   x02220    E      022100


| D/A          A     | D/A           A
  Tell me this feeling lasts till forever

| Adim7           A           | E7sus4        A
  Tell me the the bad times are clean washed away


| D/A         A             | D/A               A
  Please understand that it's still strange and frightening

  | Adim7       A             | E7sus4         A | % | %
For losers like I've been, it's so     hard to say



CHORUS3:
Notes:
E/11 is U.S. notation for Eadd11, used here for reasons of space.
B/11 is U.S. notation for Badd11, used here for reasons of space.
A/11 is U.S. notation for Aadd11, used here for reasons of space.


Chords:
Bm7    x24232    A/C#  x42220    E       022100    C#7/F  xx3424
A7/C#  x42020    A     x02220    B/11    xx2442    F#m    244222
D      xx0232    E/11  x02100    A7sus4  x02030    B7sus4 xx4455
A/11   xx0220    B/D#  xx1x02    B7/D#   xx1202    B7     x21202

Dm7     xx0211    B/A     x0444x
Dm      xx0231    Bm7b5/A x0343x
 
E7sus4  020230 or x50455 or 7777xx

 
    Bm7 A7/C#  D      | A/11 | D |    A/C#  Bm7 | A     | E/11 | A
Sud-den-ly     Seymour             he pur - if  - ied me

| A/C#  B/D#   | E      | B/11 | E | D      A/C# Bm7  A  | % | A7sus4
  Sud - den - ly Seymour             showed me   I    can

| A     Bm7 A7/C# | D       A/11 | D    |      B7/D#   | A   |   C#7/F | F#m
  learn how to      be more          the  girl that's in-side  me

| %        | B7sus4 | %  | B7      |           | Dm7 | Dm 
  Sweet understand  - ing,    with   sweet under-stand-ing,

| %      | %         | A   | % | E7sus4 | % 
     with  sweet under-stand-ing,

| %          | A  | % | B/A | % | Bm7b5/A | % | A |
  Seymour's my man______________________________

[ends on A]