Chords for Dee Dee Bridgewater - The Sweeter He Is

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I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ didn't [Ab] _ _ _
ask _ _ [Eb] to be [Ab] followed in [Eb] love, _ [Eb] if you would love me. _ _ _ _ _ _
But you [Ab] were so sweet, _ _ _ [Eb] tell me what [Ab]
else [Eb] could I do? _ _
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Oh, but then one day [Gm] you said you didn't want me no more, no.
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And my heart's still [Ab] aching from that _ terrible blow.
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_ _ _ [Ab] The longer _ the pain is [Eb] gonna _ _ [Bb] _
[Cm] last, _ [Ab] oh yes it [Gm]
will.
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In your own way, _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ you made me feel _ like a queen.
_ You _ _ _ _ _ _ built me up so _ _ _ high, _ till I [Ab] gave you [Eb] my _ [Eb] everything. _ _ _
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Oh, but [G] one day it [Gm] took your good love away.
[C] _ _ [Cm] And that's why I'm sitting [Ab] here suffering, _ [Ab] suffering today.
[Eb] The sweeter _ it is, [Ab] the longer _ the pain is [Eb] gonna _ _ [Bb]
last.
[Cm] _ _ [Ab] Oh yes [Eb] it will.
[Fm] Say it again now.
[Eb] The sweeter _ it is, [Ab] the longer _ the pain is [Eb] gonna _ _ [Bb]
last.
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Mmm _ _ _ _ [Eb]-mm-mm _ _
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_ _ _ _ -mm.
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I wanna tell you one [Eb] time.
I _ _ _ _ was so [Ab] in love with this young man, I was.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ We dated, _ _ dated [Ab] almost a whole year. _
I mean we were inseparable. _
I knew everything was [Ab] cool. _ _
You know [Eb] girls, _ _ [Eb] _ I started dressing the way I thought he wanted me to, _ [Ab] _ doing my hair the
way I thought he wanted me to.
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Everything I did was [Ab] for this man. _ _
_ And _ _ _ _ then I had to go away for a little bit, you [Ab] know, it was about a month. _
_ _ But I [Eb] just knew our love was tight.
_ _ I knew [Ab] everything was right. _ _
_ But when I [Eb] came back home, _ _ I discovered _ [Ab] his _ love had grown, baby.
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He'd found himself another, [Ab] another love. _
_ _ He [Eb] told me mine wasn't enough, _ so he had let me [Ab] go.
_ Now that was a cold way to find out.
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Oh, _ and I have missed that man to this day, I have. _ _ _
_ Oh Lord, [Ab] that love was sweet. _ _
Oh, that man was sweet.
[Eb] _ _ I'm telling [Cm] you, I thought [F] my life had come [B] to an end.
[Bb] I feel dead.
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But life goes on, yes it does.
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I [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
have to pull myself up _ _ [Ab]
and walk away. _ _ _ _ _
_ Although my heart was [Ab] broken, _ _ _ _ _ [G] I know that he spoke _
[Cm] _ _ _ [F] the words he needed [Ebm] to say.
Oh, yes [Eb] he did.
I ain't mad at [Eb] him no more.
Oh, oh, _ [Ab] _ oh, oh, no, no, no.
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I got my music.
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_ Oh, yes I [Eb] do.
_ And I made peace with myself.
_ [Ab] _ Not only about him, but about everything.
_ [G] _ You see, [Cm] you got to look inside of you, [Eb] learn to love yourself before [B] you can love somebody [Bb] else.
_ You hear me? _ _
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_ _ _ Yeah. _ _ _
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Yeah.
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_ _ _ [Ab] Yeah. _ _ _
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