Foolish Thoughts - Narvel Felts

Foolish Thoughts

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Foolish Thoughts:Narvel Felts.
On the charts in 1957.
 
#1.
C F
I can't do a thing when I'm thinkin' of you..
C G7
think of you, is all I do.
C F
But I realize, there's lots of other guys,
C G7 C C7
with fool..ish thoughts of you.
 
Chorus:
F C
I wonder how it feels, to have your popularity?
F D G7
I wonder what I have to do to make you think of me?
C F
But I realize, there's lots of other guys,
C G7 C
with fool..ish thoughts of you.
 
#2.
C F
I can't dream a dream, that hasn't been dreamed,
C G7
by all the other guys in town.
C F
Everybody's thinkin' of the things I'm thinkin' too,
C G7 C
with fool..ish thoughts of you.
 
Chorus:
F C
I wonder how it feels, to have your popularity?
F D G7
I wonder what I have to do to make you think of me?
C F
But I realize, there's lots of other guys,
C G7 C
with fool..ish thoughts of you.
C G7 C
Fool..ish thoughts of you.
C G7 C
Fool..ish thoughts of you.
 
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.

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