A Fool for You Otis Redding
...A FOOL FOR YOU... by Otis Redding
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*from 'The Immortal Otis Redding' (1968)*
*CAPO 1st FRET*
(Original Key: C#)
Intro:
[C]
Verse 1:
[G#7#5] I know you [C]told me,[G#7#5]
Long [C]time ago,[C7]
That you didn't [F]want me, yeah,
You didn't love me no [Cdim]more.
But I know it was [C]something,[Adim]
Oh, that [D7]made me blue.
[G7] But believe me I've been a [C]fool for you.[F]
I've been a big [C]fool for you.[G#7#5]
Verse 2:
[G#7#5] I know you [C]told me, [G#7#5]yeah,
You didn't want me a-r[C]ound.[C7]
And don't you [F]have a big old man,
Right there in an apartment,
[Cdim] Way across town.
And I know it's [C]something,[Adim]
That [D7]makes me blue,
Be-[G7]lieve me child,
I've been a [C]fool for you.[F]
I've been a [C]fool for you.[G#7#5]
Break:
[C] Now did you ever wake up in the morning,
Just about the break of day yeah, uh.
Reach over and feel your pillow,
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,
Where that lil' fine fuck used to lay?
Ever since I was 5 years old, baby,
I've been a, a fool for you.
Way down, deep down in my soul, oh,
I've been a fool for you.
Coda:
Well I know it's [C]something,[Adim]
Oh, what [D7]makes me blue.
Be-[G7]lieve me child,
I've been a [C]fool for you.
I've been a [F]fool for you,
I've been a [C]fool for you.
I've been a [F]fool for you.
I've been a [C]fool for you.
I've been just, so [F]bad, yeah,
So [F]bad, yeah,
I've been just so [C]bad.
You don't know what you're [F]doing to me.
Well, I just [C]can't understand, yeah,
No no no, [F]baby, yeah.
I've been a [C]fool for you honey now,
I've been a great big [F]fool for you, baby.
A [C]fool for you mama...
(Fade)
CHORD DIAGRAMS:
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[C] [G#7#5] [C7] [F]
[EADGBE]x32010 [EADGBE]30344x [EADGBE]x32310 [EADGBE]133211
[Cdim] [Adim] [D7] [G7]
[EADGBE]xx1212 [EADGBE]xx2323 [EADGBE]xx0212 [EADGBE]323000
Tabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2007
(clumsyband@hotmail.com)
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