Chords with lyrics
I'll Be True To You:Oak Ridge Boys.
102 on BB Hot 100
on DOT Records in 1977.
INTRO: E MajorE A augmentedA E MajorE BB E MajorE DbmDbm A augmentedA E MajorE
#1.
Abm7Abm7 A augmentedA DbmDbm E MajorE
They met upon a blue moon.......and they parted
DbmDbm GbmGbm A augmentedA
on a cloudy day.
E MajorE EbmEbm DbmDbm D MajorD
They were so in love and out of school..
A augmentedA BB GbmGbm
but he was goin' so far, far away.
CHORUS:
BB E MajorE BB D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE BB
She said, I'll be true to you.....even though
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you don't want me to.
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE BB
And I'll be blue for you, even though you've
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asked me not to.
#2.
E MajorE EbmEbm BB A augmentedA
Well, the year's drifted by them, as we all
know they can.
E MajorE Abm7Abm7 BB A augmentedA
He found other women, but she refused other men.
E MajorE EbmEbm Abm7Abm7 A augmentedA
But as fate would have it, they met again..
D MajorD A augmentedA BB
she was on a down-hill slide, he was just slidin' in.
#3.
E MajorE BB A augmentedA
As he looked into her eyes that night, he never
E MajorE BB A augmentedA
realized..the only real love in his life was passin' by.
E MajorE BB A augmentedA
When he turned and left her there, his words, goodbye.
D MajorD A augmentedA BB
He heard her calling out to him, and as he walked,
she cried..
CHORUS:
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE BB
I've been true to you..seems like speakin' to me is
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the least that you could do.
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE BB
And I've been blue for you, even though you've asked me
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not to.
#4.
E MajorE
She'd been drinkin' way too hard one night, she'd been
DbmDbm
drinkin' way too long.
A augmentedA E MajorE BB DbmDbm DbDb
Alone and pale in a cheap hotel, she died there in the dawn.
E MajorE D MajorD DbmDbm A augmentedA
Kneelin' by the grave, oh, so late, and oh, so wrong.
D MajorD A augmentedA BB GbmGbm BB
He longed to hold her close again, cryin' on and on.
OUTRO:
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE BB A augmentedA
He cried, I'll be true to you..after all that I have put
you through.
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE BB A augmentedA
And I'll be blue for you, though you never even asked me to.
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A augmentedA seventies smash from Kraziekhat.