Old flames can’t hold a candle to you
C - C7 - F - Fm (2x)
C F
- Fm
1. Downtown tonight, I saw an old friend someone who
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C
I used to take comfort from,
long before I met you.
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I caught a spark from his eyes
a forgotten desire,
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with
a word or a touch, I could have rekindled that fire.
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But old flames, can't hold a candle to you,
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C
no one can light up the night
like you do.
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Flickering embers of love, I've known one or two
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but old flames, can't hold a
candle to you.
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- Fm (orig. moves up
half a note to capo 2nd here)
+ C - C7 - F
- Fm
C
F
3. Sometimes at night I think of old lovers I've known,
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I remember how holding them,
helped me not feel so alone.
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Then I feel you beside me and
even their memories are gone,
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like stars
in the night, lost in the sweet light of dawn.
+ CHORUS + C7
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Fm - C
+ Old flames, can't hold
a candle to you. You.
(orig. = capo 1st) (Dolly
Parton)