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One Less Bell To Answer

by Burt Bacharach & Sheryl Crow · posted by WaltP

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ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER
By Burt Bacharach & Hal David
Key-F

One less bell to an-swer 
6    -3   -5  -6 6   -3 
One less egg to fry 
6    -3  -5  -7 -7
One less man to pick up af-ter 
-7   -5  -6  -5  -7 -7* -7  7
I should be hap-py 
7   -6   -5  -6 7
But all I do is cry 
-5  -7*-7 -6 -5  5
(Cry, cry, no more laugh-ter)
 6     -3  -5  -6    6    -3
I should be hap-py
-7  7    -6  7  -7 
(Oh, why did he go) 
6    -3   -5 -7 -7
Oh I on-ly know that since he left 
-5-5 -6 7   -6   7     -7  -5  -6
My life's so emp-ty
-5  -7    -7* -7  7 

Though I  try to for-get
-6*    7* -7* -6* 7* -7* 
It just can't be done 
8*  -7*  -6  -7*  -7*
Each time the door-bell rings 
-6   -5*  -3*  -5*  7*    7*
I  still run 
-5*  7*   -6 
I don't know how in the world 
-3* -5*  -6   7  -6  7   -7*
To stop think-ing of him 
7* -7*   -9    8 -7* -5*
Cause I still love him so 
-9    8  -7*   -5* -5* -6
I spend each day the way I start out 
-6 -5    -6   -7  7   -5 -6  -7   8
Cry-ing my heart out 
-9   8  -7  8    -9
(One less bell to an-swer) 
-3     6   -5  -6  6  -3
I should be hap-py
-7  7    -6  7  -7 
(One less egg to fry) 
6     -3  -5  -7 -7
One less man to pick up af-ter 
-7   -5  -6  -5  8   -9 8  -6
No more laugh-ter, no more love 
8   -9    8   -6   -9  -9*  -9*
Since he went a-way 
-9    8   -7  7  7

REPEAT Then;
(Ah    Ah            Ah
10 -7  -9 -10 10 -7  10 -7
Ah Ah Ah Ah)
7  -7  8 -9

Burt Bacharach & Sheryl Crow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jog_ZqBweI


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