Waiting For A Girl Like You
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste:
1st traste
Waiting For A Girl Like You chords
Foreigner 1981
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/foreigner/waiting-for-a-girl-like-you
Capo I *
[Intro]
Am G
Am G
e|9---8---6---4---6---4----------|
B|--6---6---6---4---4---4-6-2-4--|
G|-----------------------------3-|
D|-------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|
Am G Am G
[Verse 1]
Am G Am
So long, I've been looking too hard
G
I've been waiting too long
Am G
Sometimes I don't know what I will find
Am G
I only know it's a matter of time
Em D
When you love someone
Em D
When you love someone
Em D
It feels so right, so warm and true
Em D E
I need to know if you feel it too
Fmaj7 G
Maybe I'm wrong
Fmaj7 G
Won't you tell me if I'm coming on too strong?
Fmaj7 G
This heart of mine has been hurt before
Fmaj7 G
This time I want to be sure
[Chorus]
Dm
I've been waiting for a girl like you
Bb Dm
To come into my life
Dm
I've been waiting for a girl like you
Bb Gm
A love that will survive
Dm
I've been waiting for someone new
Bb Dm
To make me feel alive
Dm
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you
Bb Gm
To come into my life
e|8---7---5---3---5---3---0------|
B|--5---5---5---3---3---3--1-3---|
G|-----------------------------2-|
D|-------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|
[Verse 2]
Am G
You're so good
Am G
When we make love it's understood
Am G
It's more than a touch or a word we say
Am G
Only in dreams could it be this way
Em D
When you love someone
Em D E7
Yeah, really love someone
Fmaj7 G
Now I know it's right
Fmaj7 G
From the moment I wake up till deep in the night
Fmaj7 G
There's nowhere on earth that I'd rather be
Fmaj7 G
Than holding you, tenderly
[Chorus]
Dm
I've been waiting for a girl like you
Bb Dm
To come into my life
Dm
I've been waiting for a girl like you
Bb Gm
A love that will survive
Dm
I've been waiting for someone new
Bb Dm
To make me feel alive
Dm
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you
Bb Gm
To come into my life
e|8---7---5---3---5---3---0------|
B|--5---5---5---3---3---3--1-3---|
G|-----------------------------2-| Repeat until fade
D|-------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|
Am G repeat until fade
* Alternate:
Capo III
Am = Gm
G = F
Em = Dm
D = C
E = D
Fmaj7 = Ebmaj7
Dm = Cm
Bb = Ab
Set8
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