Gordon Lightfoot – beautiful (1972)

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"Beautiful," by Gordon Lightfoot, is one of his love songs, and a popular wedding (or anniversary) song at least among Lightfoot fans. It's a song that uses a somewhat unusual picking pattern; one he has said he learned from his dentist! Other songs using this picking pattern are Softly and If You Could Read My Mind. Lightfoot said about this song: "Love fulfilled. One of those songs I've played every night for over a quarter-century, and I don't get tired of it."

LYRICS/CHORDS
(Amaj7) (Fmaj7) (Amaj7) (Fmaj7)
(Amaj7) At times I just don't know
(Am7) How you could be anything but (Dmaj7) beautiful
I think that I was (Dm7) made for you and you were made for (Amaj7) me (Am7)
And I know that I will (Dmaj7) never change
'Cause we been friends through (Dm7) rain or shine
For such a long, long (Amaj7) time (Fmaj7)

Laughing eyes and smiling face, it seems so lucky just to have the right
Of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight
And I know that you will never stray
'Cause you been that way, from day to day
For such a long, long time

And when you hold me tight, how could life be anything but beautiful
I think that I was made for you and you were made for me
And I know that I will never change
'Cause we been friends through rain or shine
For such a long, long time

And (Dmaj7) I must say it means so much to (Amaj7) me, to be the (D/A) one
That's (Esus) telling you, I'm telling you, that you're (Amaj7) beautiful