Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love

Subject: Faded Love
From:
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 04:55 PM

I'm learning the fiddle tune, Faded Love on the fiddle. I'd like my family play an instrument and all of us sing this song along together.

Priscilla Jacobson

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 04:59 PM

Faded Love  by Bob wills and Johnny Wills ©1950    

			C					  C7							F					  As I look at the letters that you wrote to me,  		 C										   G7  It's you that I am thinking of.  			C				 C7					  F					  As I read the lines that to me were so sweet,  		 C					G7		   C  I remember our faded love.    

		 C														F  	I miss you, darling, more and more every day,  				C														  G7  	As heaven would miss the stars above.  					C											F			  	With every heartbeat I still think of you  					  C					 G7		  C    D#dim   G7  	And remember our faded love.    

		C						C7							F					  I think of the past and all the pleasures we had  		   C											   G7  As I watch the mating of the dove.  			 C				C7									F					  It was in the springtime when you said goodbye.  		  C					  G7		 C  I remember our faded love.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 05:07 PM

(If I accidentally pressed "submit" before I got the chord positions corrected, please disregard the first post. I hope they survive the transmission in the proper positions re the words. The chords are taken from my songbook "Bob Wills: King Of Western Swing."

Genie

Faded Love  by Bob wills and Johnny Wills ©1950    

			      C					            C7							              F					  As I look at the letters that you wrote to me,  		     C										                         G7  It's you that I am thinking of.  			      C				        C7					             F					  As I read the lines that to me were so sweet,  		      C					              G7		   C  I remember our faded love.    

		 C													                                       	F  	I miss you, darling, more and more every day,  				    C														                                       G7  	As heaven would miss the stars above.  					      C										                         	F			  	With every heartbeat I still think of you  					            C					             G7		     C    D#dim   G7  	And remember our faded love.    

		  C						           C7						                   	F					  I think of the past and all the pleasures we had  		       C											                            G7  As I watch the mating of the dove.  			        C				       C7									                 F					  It was in the springtime when you said goodbye.  		      C					             G7		      C  I remember our faded love.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 05:18 PM

Well, I had it formatted correctly and I put the "pre" in the "<>" brackets before it and the "/pre" in the brackets afterwards, so I don't understand wha hoppen!

Let's try it this way:

Faded Love
by Bob wills and Johnny Wills ©1950
As I lo[C]ok at the l[C7]etters that you wr[F]ote to me,
It's y[C]ou that I am thinking o[G7]f.
As I re[C]ad the lin[C7]es that to m[F]e were so sweet,
I rem[C]ember our fa[G7]ded lo[C]ve.
I m[C]iss you, darling, more and mo[F]re every day,
As hea[C]ven would miss the stars ab[G7]ove.
With e[C]very heartbeat I still th[F]ink of you
And reme[C]mber our f[G7]aded lo[C] ve.[D#dim] [G7]

I thi[C]nk of the p[C7]ast and all the pl[F]easures we had
As I w[C]atch the mating of the d[G7]ove.
It was i[C]n the spr[C7]ingtime when y[F]ou said goodbye.
I rem[C]ember our f[G7]aded l[C]ove.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: SharonA
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 05:20 PM

There's another thread on this, with links to midi's & stuff: Tune Req: Faded Love

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 08:31 PM

Three recordings (full audio) are in The Recorded Lady's All-Country Favorites: by Bob Wills, Patsy Cline (both HERE, and Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper ().

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 08:33 PM

Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper is HERE.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: GUEST,honestfrankie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 09:54 PM

From the Bob Wills record that I have, the tune is first played in D (better for the fiddle!) and the song changes key to A (better for voices like mine that can't hit the stratosphere) and the slide back up to D to play the tune again. Great song! Have fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Faded Love
From: Genie
Date: 08 Mar 02 - 10:27 PM

honestfrankie, that sounds good for the guitarists/singer, too! I think Patsy Cline has a key change like that in her recording of it, too. Otherwise, you sort of have to do an octave jump from the verse to the chorus, or it sounds too homogeneous.

Genie