Song for whoever (Radio version)    (video)

 

    Bm - Em - C - D

 

    Bm                  Em                    C                    D

1.       I love you from the bottom of my pencil case,

Bm              Em                   - C                  D

    I love you in the songs I        write and sing.

      D                  Em           C                                D

    Love you because you put me in the rightful place,

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    and I love the PRS checks        that you bring.

          G                   D         Am                         D

    Cheap, never cheap, I’ll sing the songs till you’re asleep,

         D                            Bm                            Am          D

    when you’ve gone upstairs, I’ll creep and write it all down,

      D7      D        D7

    down, down, down !

 

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Oh, Shirley, oh, Deborah, oh, Julie, oh, Jane,

D                             Em

    I wrote so many songs about you,

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 I forget your name, I forget your name.

  G                           Em                C                            D

Jennifer, Allison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too,

 

I forget your name,

  G                          Em                 C                           D

Jennifer, Allison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too,

                      Bm

I forget your name.

 

+  Bm - Em - C - D (2x)

 

   Bm                   Em                    C                   D

2.      I love you from the bottom of my pencil case,

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    I love the way you never        ask me why.

       D                     Em             C                    D

    I love to write about each wrinkle on your face,

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    and I love you till my fountain        pen runs dry.

       G            D             Am                 D

    Deep, so deep, the number one I hope to reap

          Bm                   Em                           C               D   D7   D   D7

    depends upon the tears you weep, so cry, lovely, cry, cry, cry, cry !

 

          G           Em                 C                 D  

Oh, Kathy, oh, Allison, oh, Philippa, oh, Sue,

D                        Em

    you made me so much money,

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I wrote this song for you, I wrote this song for you !

  G                          Em                 C                            D

Jennifer, Allison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too,

 

I wrote this song for you !

  G                          Em                 C                            D

Jennifer, Allison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel, too,

 

+  G - Em - C - D (2x)    +  D - D7

 

+  CHORUS

 

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+  For you, for you,       I wrote this song for you !

 

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+  G - Em - C - D         +  I wrote this song for you.

 

 

(orig. = capo 2nd)    (The Beautiful South)