Killing Me Softly
by Unknown · posted by vik
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- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
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- < or *
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Tab
Killing me softly
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I heard he sang a good song,
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I heard he had a style.
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And so I came to see him
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to listen for a while.
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And there he was, this young boy,
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a stranger to my eyes,
Chorus
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Strumming my pain with his fingers
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Singing my life with his words.
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Killing me softly with his song,
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Killing me softly with his song,
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Telling my whole life with his words.
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Killing me softly with his song.
Verse 2
I felt all flused 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.
---to chorus--
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