Misc Musicals – The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - The I Love You Song (Guitar)

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OLIVE
  D5
If I go to Washington

  D5
Will I be on my own?

           D5
Because if I go to Washington

D5
(Aaaaaaaah)

(no chord)            D    Dmaj7    D7    Dmaj7
Who will be my chaperone?
OLIVE’S MOM
D  Dmaj7  D7              Dsus7  D7
We always knew you were a winner

G   E7/G#           D2/A  D/A  D7sus  D7
  We saw it when you smiled

G                  Gm6
  Start from the beginning

     D2/A    D    Bsus7  B7
When you were a beginner

Esus7    E        A11          A
    You were the perfect child

 D
We always knew

       Dmaj7
We always knew

            D7  Dsus7  D7
You were a champion

G      E7/G#          D2/A  D/A  Dsus7 D7
  Your sadness filled my room

G         Gm6                 D2/A  D
  Dear if you should feel my gloom

B7sus    B7
Blame it on me

E7sus             E
Blame it on your daddily and mammily

A11               F#m7      E7/G#  F#7/A#
‘Cause depression runs in our family

Bm     F# F#/G# F#/A#  G#m7(4)  F#  F#/A#
I     love      you

D     C#m7  F#7
I     love  you

G                  E7sus       E7
I love everything about you dear

     A7sus        A7
And I swear it’s true

F#  F#7/A#  F#7  F#7/A#
I      love   you
OLIVE’S DAD
Bm     F# F#/G# F#/A#  G#m7(4)  F#  F#/A#
I     love      you
OLIVE And my dad says OLIVE’S DAD, OLIVE’S MOM
D    C#m7  F#7
I    love  you

G                  E7sus       E7
I love everything about you babe

     A7sus        A7
And maybe it’s true

F#   F#/A#   Bm
I    love    you
OLIVE
Bm             G13
I wrote you a letter

       C#7                 F#7
How I found the spelling bee such fun

Bm    A/C#   D
Mama, Mama, Mama

         G13 G7    F#+  F#
But you didn’t react

Bm              G13
And you never asked me

         C#7            F#7
If I’d join you in the Bombay sun

Bm    A/C#   D
Mama, Mama, Mama

       G13 G7    F#+  F#
I had quietly packed

 C6           B7(#5)  B7
When are you returning?

Gm6/Bb       D2/A  D/A
I know we agreed

C6           B7(#5)  B7
Tell me what you’re learning

Gm6/Bb         F#m       F#7
Ma, I have, Oh God, this need

Bm              G13    G7
I think Dad is angry, Ma

 C#7               F#7
And I do not know what to do

Bm    A/C#   D
Mama, Mama, Mama

        G13 G7    F#+  F#
Shanti Shanti and ohm

Bm              G13    G7
I think he takes out on me

     C#7               F#7
What he wants to take out on you

Bm    A/C#   D
Mama, Mama, Mama

       G13    G7     F#
How I wish you were home

       G13    G7     F#
How I wish you were home

       G13    G7
How I wish you were

 G13    G7
Wish you were
OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD OLIVE
D  Dmaj7   D7   D7sus   D7                         D  Dmaj7   D7   D7sus   D7
We always knew you were a winner                   Home

                                                                                G    E7/G#
    How I wish you were home
OLIVE’S MOM
G   E7/G#        D2/A  D/A  D7sus                  D2/A        D/A
A bathing beauty, you                              How I wish you were

                                                   D7sus                G    Gm6
                                                   How I wish you were home
OLIVE’S DAD
G       Gm6                D                       D
God, we love the way you grew                      How I wish you were

B7sus    B7        E7sus                                    B7sus    B7        E7sus  E
Since you were born                                         How I wish you were home
OLIVE’S MOM
E7sus       E                                               A11
Olive, we couldn’t be prouder                       Mama, Mama, Mama
OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD (overlapping Olive)
 A11                                              F#7     E/G#  F#7/A#   Bm
Please let me say it                                        How I wish you were home

F#7     E/G#  F#7/A#
One time louder
OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD
Bm    F# F#/G# F#/A# F#/G#  F#  F#/A#
I     love      you

D    C#m7  F#7
I    love  you

G                   E7sus      E7
I love everything about you dear

     A7sus        A7
And I swear It’s true

F#  F#7/A#   Bm
I   love     you
OLIVE, OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD
Bm    F# F#/G# F#/A# F#/G#  F#  F#/A#
I     love      you

D    C#m7  F#7
I    love  you

G                   E7sus      E7
I love everything about you dear

     A7sus             A7
And I swear, maybe it’s true

F#  F#7/A#
I   love
N.C. OLIVE Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful. OLIVE, OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD N.C. I love
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