Love – Softly To Me tab

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                             "Softly To Me"
                            (Bryan Maclean)

Intro:

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

	   Dm   Dm9                                     Dm6/9	E -------0----------------0------------------0----0--------|	B -------1----0h1-0---0h1-0------0h1-0---0h1-0----0--------|	G -------2------2-2-2-2-2-2--------2-2-2-2-2-2----2--------|	D -3-----3------3-------------3----3---------3----3--------|	A -0-----0--------------------0--------------0----0--------|	D -0-----0----------0---------0----0---------0----0--------|

	C/E        Cmaj7/E Dm9	              [2X]
	 / / / /  / / / /   / / / /   / / / /

Verse 1:

	C/E                                        Cmaj7/E [1: Dm6/9  2-4: Dm9]
	 I could love you more and more each day for a million years
	C/E                                 Cmaj7/E    D   Dsus4
	And I'd sit around all day just crying happy tears

Chorus:

	              D               Dsus2       D
	To [2: But] dance and sing my life away (life away)
	    Dsus4    Dm9           C/D               D   Dsus4  D  Dsus4
	And laughing with you, my darling, softly to me

	[1: Cmaj7/E            Dm9 ]
	     / / / /  / / / /   / / / /   / / / /

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:

	        Bmaj7
	And my darling you will never know how elegant
	                      Amaj7 [x06650]
	    you'll always be to me
	        Bmaj7
	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:

	D  Dsus4  D  Dsus4
	/ / / /   / / / /

	Dm9       C/D *    Dm6/9       *       Dm6/9
	 / / / /   / / / /   / / / /   / / / /  / / / /  / / / /
	                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bass tacit

	* rhythm guitar plays figure similar to intro

	C/E                Dm9                 [fade]
	 / / / /  / / / /   / / / /   / / / /


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers