Foolish You Chords & Tabs
FOOLISH YOU
Kate and Anna McGarrigle
(Witten by Wade Hemsworth)
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2nd Fret
Intro: F C G7 C
C G7 C
Foolish you, you want to go away,
D7 G G7
Seeking fortune's favour on your own,
C Am Dm7 F
While the one who stays beside you
G G7 C
Foolish me, is left alone.
Chorus:
G C
Sad and foolish, that's how I feel,
F C C7
Don't you know how fortune favours few?
F C Am7
Fortune's blind, as blind as you, my dear,
G7 C (C7 First time only)
What a pity, ah, foolish you!
1st TIME: Bridge - F G C
2nd TIME: Instrumental – same chords as verse
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/k/kate_and_anna_mcgarrigle/foolish_you_crd.html ]
C G7 C
Leaving me this way is hardly fair,
D7 G G7
Must I go seek a fortune too,
C Am Dm7 F
Or must I wait till folly finds its own way
G G7 C
Home to me and foolish you?
C G7 C
Loving you was good, love was kind,
D7 G G7
I didn't mind the payments overdue,
C Am Dm7 F
For the price of loving is none too dear,
G G7 C
As long as I'm with foolish you.
(Slowly)
G C
Sad and foolish, that's how I feel,
F C C7
When I see the foolish way you do,
F C Am
Fortune fails when you are gone my dear,
(Normal Speed)
G7 C
But I still want more of foolish you,
G7 C C7 F Dm7 C G7 C G7 C
I sti-ll wa-nt mo-re of foolish you.
Notes:
Play in 2/2 time
For the intro follow the last two lines of the chorus
This is how I play:
The bridge after the first chorus
F G C
1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1
The outro
C C7 F Dm7 C G7 C G7C
1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 1 & 2
