Killing Me Softly With His Song
by Roberta Flack · tab for chromatic harmonica
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Strum-ming my pain with his fin-gers
Sing-ing my life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Tell-ing my whole life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly
With his song...
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
to lis-ten for a-while
And there he was this young boy
A strang-er to my eyes...
Strum-ming my pain with his fin-gers
Sing-ing my life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Tell-ing my whole life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly
With his song...
I felt all flushed with fev-er
Em-bar-rassed by the crowd
I felt he found my let-ters
and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would fin-ish
But he just kept right on...
Strum-ming my pain with his fin-gers
Sing-ing my life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Tell-ing my whole life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly
With his song...
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark des-pair
And then he looked right through me
as if I was-n't there
And he just kept on sing-ing,
Sing-ing clear and strong...
Strum-ming my pain with his fin-gers
Sing-ing my life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Tell-ing my whole life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly
With his song...
Strum-ming my pain with his fin-gers
Sing-ing my life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Kill-ing me soft-ly with his song
Tell-ing my whole life with his words
Kill-ing me soft-ly
With his song...