Killing Me Softly With His Song
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
1st traste
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Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack
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Tabbed by: FoxHound
special thanks to "Ute Gattermann,ute@tolkien.imsd.rwth-aachen.de"
Email: metallischesblut@aol.de
Tuning: standard (EADGBE)
Kapodaster 1. Bund
Capo 1. Fret
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[Refrain]
Em Am
Strumming my pain with his fingers
D7 G
singing my life with his words
Em A
D C
G C
telling my whole life with his words.
Esus4
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
[Verse]
Am7 D
I heard he sang a good song
G C
I heard he had a style
Am7 D
and so I came to see him
Em
and listen for a while.
Am7 D7
And there he was this young boy
G Am7 B7
a stranger to my eyes.
[Refrain]
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
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
[Verse]
Am7 D
I felt all flushed with fever
G C
embarrassed by the crowd.
Am7 D
I felt he found my letters
Em
and read each one out loud.
Am7 D7
I prayed that he would finish
G Am7 B7
but he just kept right on.
[Refrain]
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
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
[Verse]
Am7 D
He sang as if he knew me
G C
in all my dark despair.
Am7 D
And then he looked right through me
Em
as if I wasn't there.
Am7 D7
And he just kept on singing
G Am7 B7
singing clear and strong.
[Chorus]
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
Killing me softly
E
with his song.
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