Killing Me Softly With His Song Acoustic chords by Olivia Ong

Chords with lyrics

Alternatively you can play Fmaj7Fmaj7 as FF and it should still sound good.

Verse 1:

A minorAm     D MajorD
I heard he sang a good song,
G+G     C majorC
I heard he had a style,
A minorAm    D MajorD
And so I came to see him
  E minorEm      E minorEm
And listen for a while
A minorAm      D MajorD
And there he was, this young boy,
G+G     B7B7
A augmentedA stranger to my eyes

Chorus:

E minorEm             A minorAm
Strumming my pain with his fin-gers,
D MajorD            G+G
Singing my life with his words
E minorEm           A augmentedA
Killing me softly with his song
      D MajorD      C majorC
Killing me softly with his song
      G+G        C majorC
Telling my whole life with his words,
      Fmaj7Fmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7     E MajorE  E MajorE
Killing me softly    with his song.


Verse 2:

A minorAm   D MajorD
I felt flushed with fever,
G+G       C majorC
Embarrassed by the crowd,
A minorAm    D MajorD
I felt he found my letters
  E minorEm      E minorEm
And read each one out loud.
A minorAm      D MajorD
I prayed that he would finish.
G+G      B7B7
But he kept right on...


Chorus:

E minorEm             A minorAm
Strumming my pain with his fin-gers,
D MajorD            G+G
Singing my life with his words
E minorEm           A augmentedA
Killing me softly with his song
      D MajorD      C majorC
Killing me softly with his song
      G+G        C majorC
Telling my whole life with his words,
      Fmaj7Fmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7     E MajorE  E MajorE
Killing me softly    with his song.

Verse 3:

A minorAm     D MajorD
He sang as if he knew me
G+G     C majorC
In all my dark despair
A minorAm         C majorC
And then he looked right through me
  E minorEm     E minorEm
As if I wasn't there
A minorAm    D MajorD
And he just kept on singing
G+G       B7B7
Singing clear and strong


Chorus:

E minorEm             A minorAm
Strumming my pain with his fin-gers,
D MajorD            G+G
Singing my life with his words
E minorEm           A augmentedA
Killing me softly with his song
      D MajorD      C majorC
Killing me softly with his song
      G+G        C majorC
Telling my whole life with his words,
      Fmaj7Fmaj7 Fmaj7Fmaj7     E MajorE  E MajorE