"Softly To Me"
(Bryan Maclean)

Intro:

(electric guitar [dropped D], strumming pattern not shown):

DmDm Piano Chord 
   Dm9Dm9 Piano Chord 
                                     Dm6/9Dm6/9 Piano Chord 

EE Piano Chord 
 -------0----------------0------------------0----0--------
B -------1----0h1-0---0h1-0------0h1-0---0h1-0----0--------
GG Piano Chord 
 -------2------2-2-2-2-2-2--------2-2-2-2-2-2----2--------
DD Piano Chord 
 -3-----3------3-------------3----3---------3----3--------
AA Piano Chord 
 -0-----0--------------------0--------------0----0--------
DD Piano Chord 
 -0-----0----------0---------0----0---------0----0--------

C/E        Cmaj7/E Dm9	              [2X]
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Verse 1:

C/EC/E Piano Chord 
                                        Cmaj7/E [1: Dm6/9Dm6/9 Piano Chord 
  2-4: Dm9]Dm9] Piano Chord 

I could love you more and more each day for a million years
C/EC/E Piano Chord 
                                 Cmaj7/E    DD Piano Chord 
   Dsus4
And I'd sit around all day just crying happy tears

Chorus:

DD Piano Chord 
               Dsus2       DD Piano Chord 

To [2: But] dance and sing my life away (life away)
Dsus4    Dm9Dm9 Piano Chord 
           C/DC/D Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 
   Dsus4  DD Piano Chord 
  Dsus4
And laughing with you, my darling, softly to me

[1: Cmaj7/E            Dm9Dm9 Piano Chord 
 ]
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Verse 2:

Orange, sugar, chocolate, hot cinnamon and lovely things and you
And darling, you know there was really nothing else that I could do

[repeat chorus]

Bridge:

Bmaj7Bmaj7 Piano Chord 

And my darling you will never know how elegant
Amaj7 [x06650]
you'll always be to me
Bmaj7Bmaj7 Piano Chord 

And my darling I was so in love it was evident for anyone

Verse 3:

To see, and I suppose they already do
And how come so suddenly everything depends on you

[repeat chorus]

[guitar solo over bridge chords]

Verse 4:

And if I kissed you once I'd probably do it again
But then that's not so inconceivable, my friend

Coda:

DD Piano Chord 
  Dsus4  DD Piano Chord 
  Dsus4
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Dm9Dm9 Piano Chord 
       C/DC/D Piano Chord 
 *    Dm6/9Dm6/9 Piano Chord 
       *       Dm6/9Dm6/9 Piano Chord 

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bass tacit

* rhythm guitar plays figure similar to intro

C/E                Dm9                 [fade]
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-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers