Chords for Don McLean - Empty Chairs Then Lori Lieberman - Killing Me Softly

Laurie Lieberman is here tonight in the audience.
She _
Heard me sing a song called empty chairs
And she wrote a poem which became the song killing me softly with his song and she had the first
recording of that song _ _
Roberta Flack heard it and
and made a big hit out of it, [G] but
she was the
Someone I do empty chairs.
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [D] _
_ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
I feel a trembling tingle of a [Am] sleepless night
[E] _ [C] _ _ creep [D] through my
Fingers [G] and the moon is bright
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ beams of blue
Come flickering through [Am] my windowpane
[A] _ Like [C] _ _ [D] gypsy maws the dance [G] around a candle flame
[C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ And I [Am] wonder if you know
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
That I [G] never understood
_ _ [Bm] _ _
[Em] _ _ That although you [C] said you'd go until you did [D] I _ never thought [G] you
_ _ _ Moonlight _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [C] _
[Bm] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ used to bathe the [D] [Am] contours of your face
_ _ [C] _ While chestnut [Dm] hair fell all around [G] the _ pillowcase _
_ _ And the fragrance of your flowers [Am] rest beneath my head
[A] The [C] _ _
sympathy [D] bouquet left with a [G] love that's dead
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
I [Am] wonder if you know
_ That _
[D] _ _ _ I never [G] understood _
[Bm] That _ [Em] _ _ _ although you said [Am] you'd [C] go until you did [D] I _ never thought [G] you
Never _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] thought the words you said were [Em] true
_ [G] Never [Am] _ _
_ _ thought you said just [D] what you meant
_ [G] _ _ _ Never knew how much I [Em] needed you
_ Never _ _
_ _ [C] thought you'd leave
[D] _
[Am] _ _ _ Until [C] [G] you _ went
_ _ [Am] Morning _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ comes and morning goes with [A] no regret
_ [E] _ _ [C] _ Evening brings [Dm] the memories [G] I can't forget _ _ _
_ Empty rooms that echo as I [Am] climb the stairs
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ Empty [D] clothes that drape and fall [G] on empty chairs
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
And [Em] I [Am] wonder if you know _ _ _
_ [D] _ That I never [G] understood
_ _ That [Em] _ _ _
although you said [C] you'd go until you did _ [D] I
_ Never thought [G]
you
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _
_ [C] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Heard [D] he's saying a good [G] song I heard [C] he has [Em] died [Am] and
So [G] I [D] came to see [Em] him
Listen for a while _ [C] and there he [D] was this young [G] boy a stranger [B] to _
_ _ [Em] Strumming my pain with [Am] his fingers
_ _ [D] Singing my life [G] with his _ words
[Em] Killing me softly [A] with his song
[D] killing me softly
[C] with his song
[G] Telling my whole life [C] with his words killing me [F] softly
_ [B] with [F] _
_ [G] his [E] song
_ I _ _ [Am] _ _ felt [Em] all [D]
flushed with fever [G] _ _ and
[C] Embarrassed by the [G] [Am] crowd I felt [D] he found my [Em] letters
And read each one out loud [Am] I
Prayed [D] that he would finish
[G] _ But he [B] just kept right [Em] on
Strumming my [Am] pain with his fingers [D] _ singing my life [G] his words
_ [Em] Killing me softly [A] with his song
[D] killing me softly
[C] with his song
[G] Telling my whole life with [C] his words
_ [F] killing me softly
[B] _ _ [F] _
With _ [B] his [E] song _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _