Otis Redding - A Fool for You

      
 
 ...A FOOL FOR YOU... by Otis Redding

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 *from 'The Immortal Otis Redding' (1968)*
 
 *CAPO 1st FRET*
 
 (Original Key: C#)
 
 Intro:
 
 C 
  
 Verse 1:
 
 G#7#5       C       G#7#5 
  I know you told me,
      C        C7 
 Long time ago,
                 F             
 That you didn't want me, yeah,
                       Cdim 
 You didn't love me no more.
 
                   C         Adim 
 But I know it was something,
          D7           
 Oh, that made me blue.
 G7                          C            F 
  But believe me I've been a fool for you.
                 C            G#7#5 
 I've been a big fool for you.
 
 Verse 2:
 
 G#7#5       C        G#7#5 
  I know you told me, yeah,
                       C    C7 
 You didn't want me a-round.
               F                  
 And don't you have a big old man,
 Right there in an apartment,
 Cdim             
  Way across town.
 
                 C         Adim 
 And I know it's something,
      D7            
 That makes me blue,
    G7             
 Be-lieve me child,
             C            F 
 I've been a fool for you.
             C            G#7#5 
 I've been a fool for you.
 
 Break:
 
 C                                        
  Now did you ever wake up in the morning,
 Just about the break of day yeah, uh.
 Reach over and feel your pillow,
 Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow,
 Where that lil' fine f**k used to lay?
 Ever since I was 5 years old, baby,
 I've been a, a fool for you.
 Way down, deep down in my soul, oh,
 I've been a fool for you.
 
 Coda:
 
                  C         Adim 
 Well I know it's something,
          D7            
 Oh, what makes me blue.
    G7             
 Be-lieve me child,
             C            
 I've been a fool for you.
             F            
 I've been a fool for you,
             C            
 I've been a fool for you.
             F            
 I've been a fool for you.
 
             C            
 I've been a fool for you.
                    F         
 I've been just, so bad, yeah,
    F         
 So bad, yeah,
                   C   
 I've been just so bad.
                            F           
 You don't know what you're doing to me.
              C                      
 Well, I just can't understand, yeah,
           F          
 No no no, baby, yeah.
             C                      
 I've been a fool for you honey now,
                       F                  
 I've been a great big fool for you, baby.
   C                   
 A fool for you mama...
 
 (Fade)
 
 CHORD DIAGRAMS:

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 C G#7#5 C7 F 
     
 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 
 x32010 30344x x32310 133211
 
 Cdim Adim D7 G7 
     
 EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE EADGBE 
 xx1212 xx2323 xx0212 323000