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She

Charles Aznavour

The frensh/armenian artist Charles Aznavour made the song "She" for a british TV-series and released it in many languages. It reached top of the lists in England in 1974. It was used as title track from the movie "Notting Hill" with Julia Roberts and Huge Grand, then performed by Elvis Costello.
Modified 03.10.2019

Intro

C
C/E
F
F/G
G

Verse 1

C
⁠She may be the face I can't for
Ebdim
⁠get

The trace of pleasure or re
F
⁠gret

May be my treasure or the
C
⁠price I have to
A7
⁠pay
F
⁠She may be the song that summer
Fm6
⁠sings

May be the chill that autumn
C
⁠brings

May be a hundred different
Dm7
⁠things

Within the
Dm7/G
⁠measure
G7
⁠of a
C
⁠day
Dm7/G
G

Verse 2

C
⁠She may be the beauty or the
Ebdim
⁠beast

May be the famine or the
F
⁠feast

May turn each day into a
C
⁠heaven or a
A7
⁠hell
F
⁠She may be the mirror of my
Fm6
⁠dreams

The smile reflected in a
C
⁠stream

She may not be what she may
D7
⁠seem

In
Dm7/G
⁠side
G7
⁠her
C
⁠shell .

Instrumental

Som første vers, men ligg på C til slutt

Bridge

Ab
⁠She who always seems so happy in a
Eb
⁠crowd

Whose eyes can be so private and so
Db
⁠proud

No one's allowed to see them
C
⁠when they cry
Fm
⁠She may be the
Bb
⁠love that cannot hope to
Eb
⁠last

May come to
C
⁠me from shadows of the
D7
⁠past

That I'll re
D/F#
⁠member till the
Dm7/G
⁠day I
G
⁠die

Verse 3

C
⁠She may be the reason I sur
Ebdim
⁠vive

The why and wherefore I'm a
F
⁠live

The one I'll care for through the
C
⁠rough in ready
A7
⁠years
F
⁠Me I'll take her laughter and her
Fm6
⁠tears

And make them all my souve
C
⁠nirs

For where she goes I've got to
D7
⁠be

The meaning
Dm/G
⁠of my
G7
⁠life is

Ending

F
⁠She,
C
⁠She,
F
⁠oh
Fm/D
C
⁠she.