------------------------------ Author's Notes ----------------------------------
I've looked through all the chord charts on here and I think that they're all 
still off.  If you listen to the melodies that Lauren Hill and the background 
singers do, there's many more 7ths implied that aren't in the other versions posted 
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Transcription: Anthony W. Baimun

                      "Killing Me Softly"
                              by 
                         Fox and Gimbel
                        as performed by
                  Lauren Hill and the Fugees

       (CHORUS)
 Em7                      Am7       D7(5th)                  G5
Strumming my pain with my fingers.  singing my life with his words.
Em                      Am                   D7(1st)         C
Killing me softly with his song.  Killing me softly with his song.
           G               C
Telling my whole life with his words.
            F             E (Esus4, E, Esus4, E, Esus4, E, Esus4, E...)
Killing me softly,  with his song.      
                                        Em7:07978(10)
                                        Am7:575555
                                        D7(5th):x57575
                                        G5: 355433
Am7            D7(5th)                  EM: 022000
    I heard he sang the good song.      Am: x02210 
G5             C5                       D7(1st):xx0212
    I heard he had a style.             C:  x32013<-note added G)
Am7           D7(5th)                   G:  320032
    And so I came to see him,           F:  133211
    Em7                                 E:  022100    
and listen for a while.                 Esus4:02220x
Am7              D7(5th)                     
    And there he was a young boy        C5: x3555x
G5            B7                        B7: x21202<-note fingering)
   a stranger to my eyes.

    (CHORUS)

I felt all flushed with fever 
embarrassed by the crowd.
I felt he found my letters 
and read each one out loud.
I prayed that he would finish
but he just kept right on.

   (CHORUS chords played during oohs and ahhs)
    (CHORUS)
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