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Song title:      The Luckiest
Original Album:  Rockin' The Suburbs

Words and Music by Ben Folds
Copyright © 2001 Epic Records
Published by Sony Music Entertainment

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Timing is 4/4.


INTRO:
Chords:
D  xx0232 or x5777x    Bm  x24432
G  3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222
A  x02220 or 577655    D/A x00232


[play: 4/4| D | G | D | A | Bm | F#m | G | D/A  A |] 



VERSE1:
Chords:
D  xx0232 or x5777x    Bm  x24432    C     x32010 or x3555x
G  3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222    A/C#  x42220
A  x02220 or 577655    D/A x00232


| D     | A      | D              | G
  I don't get many things right the first time

 | D        | Bm        | C
In fact, I am told that a lot.

    | A          | A/C#
Now I know all the wrong turns

  | D           | G              | D  | Bm | F#m | A |
The stumbles, the falls brought me here



CHORUS1:
Chords:
Bm  x24432              A   x02220 or 577655
G   3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222
E   022100 or x7999x    D   xx0232 or x5777x


| Bm            | G          | Bm             | E             | A
    And where was I before the day that I first saw your lovely face? 

        | F#m    | G
Now I see it every day

  | D | A       | D | A | Bm | F#m | G | A    | D      | A
And I   know that I   am, I    am,   I   am the luckiest



[play: 4/4| D | G | D | A |]



VERSE2:
Chords:
D  xx0232 or x5777x    Bm  x24432    C     x32010 or x3555x
G  3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222    A/C#  x42220
A  x02220 or 577655    D/A x00232


      | D      | A  | D           | G
What if I'd been born fifty years before you

   | D          | Bm             | C
In a house on the street where you live?

    | A       | A/C#
Maybe I'd be outside

     | D            | G           | D   | Bm | F#m | A |
As you passed on your bike, would I know?



CHORUS2:
Chords:
Bm  x24432              A   x02220 or 577655
G   3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222
E   022100 or x7999x    D   xx0232 or x5777x


| Bm       | G         | Bm          | E           | A      | F#m | G
    And in a wide sea of eyes, I'd see one pair that I'd recognise

  | D | A       | D | A | Bm | F#m | G | A    | D      | A
And I   know that I   am, I    am,   I   am the luckiest



BRIDGE:
Chords:
Bm  x24432              F#m 244222
E   022100 or x7999x    G   3x0003 or 355433
A   x02220 or 577655    D   xx0232 or x5777x

| Bm         | E              | Bm    | E            | A    | F#m | G | A |
    I love you more than I have    ever found a way to say to you



VERSE3:
Chords:
D  xx0232 or x5777x    Bm  x24432              A/C#  x42220
G  3x0003 or 355433    C   x32010 or x3555x
A  x02220 or 577655    F#m 244222

   | D              | A         | D          | G
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his Nineties

      | D         | Bm       | C
And one day passed away in his sleep

      | A         A/C#       | D       | G              | D | Bm | F#m | A |
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away



CHORUS3:
Chords:
Bm  x24432              A   x02220 or 577655
G   3x0003 or 355433    F#m 244222
E   022100 or x7999x    D   xx0232 or x5777x


| Bm         | G             | Bm           | E             | A       | F#m | G |
    I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong

   | D | A       | D | A | Bm | F#m | G | A    | Bm      | F#m | G | D | G | D |
That I   know that I   am, I    am,   I   am the luckiest