Fool For You
The Impressions

(Curtis Mayfield)

 Note from AWR: Curtis Mayfield played guitar in an open F# tuning (low to
 high: F#-A#-C#-F#-A#-F# - basically the open-position G chord, down a
 semitone) but this is one of the few Impressions songs actually in F#
 (cf. "Meeting Over Yonder"); they usually favored the related keys of
 C# or B.  Oh, yes, the time signature is 9/8.

 Intro:

         (3 drumbeats)

         horns [4X]:

         F#     E      B
         / / /  / / /  / / /

 Verse 1 (guitar plays octave F# throughout):

         F#      E      B
         Never liked nobody
         F#           E         B
         That's been mean to me
         F#           E             B
         I've got a heart full of stone
         F#     E           B
         And I hate the misery
         F#    E         B
         Then you came along
         F#          E      B
            Into my life
         F#   E         B
         Destroying my mind
                          F#         E      B
         Mounting up the toil and strife

 Chorus:

                    B           D#m/A#
         But I'm a fool for you
               G#m
         I'm a fool for you
                    B           D#m/A#
         But I'm a fool for you
               G#m
         I'm a fool for you

 Post-chorus 1:

         E/B B
               Guess I'll always be
         D/A A
               And I claim it famously
                       F#           E  B   F#  E  B
         'Cause I'm a fool for you

 Verse 2:

         It's a doggone shame
         Knowin' you don't love me
         You go on and use me
         So continuously
         I don't know why
         I love you like I do
         When you're breaking my heart
         And you know it's true

 [repeat chorus]

 Post-chorus 2:

         Doggin' me every day
         But child, I'm here to stay
         'Cause I'm a fool for you

 Horn break [2X]:

         B
         / / /  / / /  / / /

         A
         / / /  / / /  / / /

 Coda:

                   (B)         F#   E   B
         You don't want me to stay
                    F#           E
         But I'm a fool for you
                 B             F#   E
         Do me wrong now every day
           B           F#          E
         Child, I'm a fool for you
         B        F#   E   B
         Ah-ha-ha-hoo
                F#          E   B
         I'm a fool for you  [fade]


source: Andrew Rogers

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