Chords for Don McLean - Empty Chairs (for Lori Lieberman / August 2011)

_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, this is great.
Let me tell you, uh, Laurie, right?
_ Yes, okay. _
Um, you know, I know Ed
Begley from _ _ probably more than 40 years.
_ _ Um, _ and Ed, you know, is, _ is serious about his
environmental work, and he's also a terrific comic actor.
And, uh, _ back in the 1970s, the
_ _ early 1970s, it was not uncommon to see him walk around L.A. in a gas mask _ [C#] _ _
_ _ making a statement.
_ [Bm] And I think probably more people do it now than ever. _
_ [N] _ And, uh, at the same time I was
playing, uh, knowing Ed, I was playing a, uh, a club called the Troubadour, _ which is
out here, _ _ and it was a, an awful place.
But _ _ anyway, _ _ _ it was a, a tough club and a lot of
tough audiences, _ and I played there for a few years.
_ And, uh, Laurie Lieberman, who's
here tonight in the audience, she, uh, heard me sing a song called Empty Chairs, and she
wrote a poem which became the song Killing Me Softly with his song.
She had the first
_ _ recording of that song, and, uh, Roberta Flack heard it and, uh, and made a big hit out of [G] it.
But, uh, _ she was the, _ someone to do Empty [D] Chairs.
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ _
_ [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 [Am] through my _
[A] windowpane _ _ [Em] Like [C] _ _
_ gypsy [D] _ maws that dance around [G] a candle flame
[C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ And I wonder [Am] if you know _ that _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
I never [G] understood _ _ _ [Bm]
That _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
although you [C] said you'd go until you did
_ [D] I _ _ never thought [G] you _ _ would
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [C] _ [Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ Moonlight used to bathe the [Am] contours of your face _ _ _
[C] _ _ While chestnut [D] hair fell all around [G] the _ pillowcase _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ And the fragrance of your flowers [Am] rests beneath my head
[A] _ A [C] _ _ _
_ [D] sympathy bouquet left with a [G] love that's dead
[C] _ [G] And _ _ _ _ _ _ I [Am] wonder if you _ know _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ that I never [G] understood _ _ _ [Bm] _
That _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C]
although [Em] you [Am] said you'd [C] go _ until you did
_ [D] I _ _ never thought you [G] _ would
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] Never [D] thought the words you said were [Em] true _ _ [G] Never [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ thought you said [D] just what you meant
_ [G] Never _ _ _ _ _ knew how much I [Em] needed you _ [C] Never _ [Em] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ thought you'd leave
[D] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ Until [G] _ you _ _ went
_ _ _ [Am] _
Morning _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
[Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ comes and morning goes [A] with no regret _
[E] _ The [C] _ _ evening brings the [D] memories _ [G] I can't forget _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Empty rooms that echo as I [Am]
climb the [Em] _ [A] stairs _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ Empty _ [D] clothes that drape and fall [G] on empty chairs
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ And _ _ _ _ I [Am] wonder if you know _ _ _ that _
_ [D] _ _ _ I never _
[G] understood _ _ _ That _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] although [Em] you said [C] you'd go until you did
_ _ [D] I _ _ never _ thought [G] you _ _ _ would
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
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