I'll Be True To You:Oak Ridge Boys.
#1 Country and #102 on BB Hot 100
on DOT Records in 1977.
INTRO: E A E B E Dbm A E
#1.
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They met upon a blue moon.......and they parted
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on a cloudy day.
E Ebm Dbm D
They were so in love and out of school..
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but he was goin' so far, far away.
CHORUS:
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She said, I'll be true to you.....even though
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you don't want me to.
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And I'll be blue for you, even though you've
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asked me not to.
#2.
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Well, the year's drifted by them, as we all
know they can.
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He found other women, but she refused other men.
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But as fate would have it, they met again..
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she was on a down-hill slide, he was just slidin' in.
#3.
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As he looked into her eyes that night, he never
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realized..the only real love in his life was passin' by.
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When he turned and left her there, his words, goodbye.
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He heard her calling out to him, and as he walked,
she cried..
CHORUS:
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I've been true to you..seems like speakin' to me is
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the least that you could do.
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And I've been blue for you, even though you've asked me
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not to.
#4.
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She'd been drinkin' way too hard one night, she'd been
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drinkin' way too long.
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Alone and pale in a cheap hotel, she died there in the dawn.
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Kneelin' by the grave, oh, so late, and oh, so wrong.
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He longed to hold her close again, cryin' on and on.
OUTRO:
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He cried, I'll be true to you..after all that I have put
you through.
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And I'll be blue for you, though you never even asked me to.
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A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
