Impressions - Fool For You guitar chord

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"Fool For You"

(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]

-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers