
Little Shop Of Horrors - Suddenly Seymour
Alan Menken
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Tom : F#m
D A D A
lift up your head, wash off your mascara
F#m A E A
here, take my kleenex, wipe that lipstick away
D A D A
show me your face, clean as the mornin
F#m A E A
i know things were bad, but now they're ok
[Chorus]
( A ) D A
suddenly seymour is standing beside you
E D A A7
you don't need no makeup, don't have to pretend
D A E F#m
suddenly seymour is here to provide you
D E D A
sweet understanding, seymour's your friend
[Verse]
D A D A
nobody ever treated me kindly
F#m A E A
daddy left early, mama was poor
D A D A
i'd meet a man and i'd follow him blindly
F#m A E A
he'd snap his fingers at me, i'd say sure
[Chorus]
( A ) D A
suddenly seymour is standin beside me
E D A A7
he don't give me orders, he don't condescend
D A E F#m
suddenly seymour is here to provide me
D E D A
sweet understanding, seymour's my friend
[Verse]
D A D A
tell me this feeling lasts till forever
F#m A E A
tell me the bad times are clean washed away
D A D A
please understand that it's still strange and frightening
F#m A E A
for losers like i've been it's so hard to say
[Chorus]
( A ) D A
suddenly seymour, he purified me
E D A A7
suddenly seymour showed me i can
D A E F#m
learn how to be more the girl that's inside me
D
with sweet understanding
Dm
with sweet understanding
A E
with sweet understanding
A F#7 Dm A
seymour's my maaah-aaaah-aaaaah-aaan!
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