I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You

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Alternative, maybe easier, version:
  • Transpose the chords 2 half steps down [ -2 ]
  • Put a capo on fret 2 to stay in the same key

UKULELE CHORDS

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Intro - fingerpicking, x2 -: D G A

        D                 G                 A       
Well, I hope that I don't fall in love with you
       D          G                  A
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue,
         G               D
Well the music plays and you display
     G               D
your heart for me to see,
  G              D
I had a beer and now I hear
    G               A
you calling out for me
      D                 G                 D
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.


          D                        G           A
Well, the room is crowded, there's people everywhere
      D                G           A
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
         G                 D
Well, if you sit down with this old clown,
     G                   D
I ll take that frown and break it,
  G                  D
Before the evening's gone away,
  G                   A
I think that we could make it,
      D                 G                 D
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.


      D                G                  A
I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
       D                 G              A
and it being late, you'd like some company,
     G               D
Well I've had two, I look at you,
    G                D
and you look back at me,
    G                   D        
The guy you're with has up and split,
    G                    A
the chair next to you is free,
      D                   G                 D
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Interlude: D G A  D G A  G D G D  G D G A  

      D                 G                 D
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.


        D                G               A
Now the night does funny things inside a man
          D               G              A   
These old tomcat feelings you don't understand
  G               D                G           D      
I turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette
  G              D                G               A
I wish I had the guts to bum one, but we've never met
      D                 G                 D
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.


         D                 G              A
Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
     D                    G            A
Last call for drinks I'll have another stout
  G               D                   G             D
I turn around and look at you, you're nowhere to be found
  G                    D                 G                       A
I search the place for your lost face, I guess I'll have another round
      D                 G                 D
and I think that I just fell in love with you    
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