Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)
^{Key: :[D] (w: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel) (Fugees, 1996)}

CHORUS:
[Em7] Strumming my pain with his [Am7] fingers
[D] Singing my life with his [G] words,
[Em7] Killing me softly with [Am7] his song,
Killing me [D] softly with [C] his song,
Telling my [G] whole life with [C] his words,
Killing me [Esus4] softly, with his [E open] song.

VERSE 1:
[Am7] I heard he [D] sang a good song, [G] I heard he [C] had a style
[Am7] and so I [D] came to see him, and [Em7] listen for a while.
[Am7] And there he [D] was this young boy, [G] a stranger [B7] to my eyes.

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VERSE 2:
I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt he found my letters, and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on.

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VERSE 3:
He sang as if he knew me, in all my dark despair.
And then he looked right through me, as if I wasn't there.
And he just kept on singing, singing clear and strong

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