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Title:      The Luckiest
Artist:     Ben Folds
Tuning:     DADGBE
Capo:       None
Tabbed by:  Michael Hogg
Date:       9th January 2004
Website:    www.michaelhogg.btinternet.co.uk/gce/tabs/

Chords:
D    000232  |  A    x02220
D/A  x00232  |  A7   x02020
E    2x2100  |  Bm   x24432
Em   2x2000  |  Bm7  x24232
F#m  4x4222  |  C    x32010
G    5x0003  |

After the intro, continue fingerpicking the rest of the song


[Intro]

   D                 G                 D                 A
E|-------2---------|-----------------|-------2---------|-----0-----------|
B|-----------3-----|-----3-----------|-----------3-----|---------2-------|
G|-------------2---|-----------4-----|-------------2---|-------------2---|
D|-----4---------0-|---0-------------|-----4---------0-|---2-------------|
A|---0-------------|-----------------|---0-------------|-0---------------|
D|-0---------------|-5---------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '

   Bm                F#m               G                 D/A     A
E|-------2---------|-------2---------|-----------3-----|-2-----2-0-------|
B|-----3-----3-----|-----2-----2-----|-------0---------|-----3---2-------|
G|-4-----------4---|-2-----------2---|-0---0-------0---|---2-------------|
D|---4-----4-------|---4-----4-------|---0-----0-----0-|-----------------|
A|-2-----------2---|-----------------|-----------------|-0-------0-------|
D|-----------------|-4-----------4---|-5---------------|-----------------|
   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '   | ' | ' | ' | '


[Verse 1]
D       A        D                G
I don't get many things right the first time
   D          Bm7         C
In fact, I am told that a lot
      A            A7               D            G
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
           D     Bm  F#m  A
Brought me here
Bm               G            Bm
   And where was I before the day
             E               A
That I first saw your lovely face?
      F#m          G
Now I see it every day
    D/A  A7
And I    know...


[Chorus]
     D  A    Bm  F#m
That I  am,  I   am
G  D/A  A7     D         A
I  am...   the luckiest


[Fill]
Play the first four bars of the Intro


[Verse 2]
        D        A    D             G
What if I'd been born fifty years before you
     D          Bm7              C
In a house on a street where you lived?
      A         A7          D              G
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
        D      Bm  F#m  A
Would I know?
Bm          G            Bm
   And in a white sea of eyes
      E             A      F#m   G
I see one pair that I recognise
    D/A  A7
And I    know...


[Chorus]


[Bridge]
Em
   I love you more than I have
Bm                     D      G   D/A  A7
   Ever found a way to say to you


[Verse 3]
     D               A           D            G
Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
        D           Bm7        C
And one day passed away in his sleep
        A         A7           D         G
And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days
            D    Bm  F#m  A
And passed away
Bm            G
   I'm sorry, I know that's a
Bm                E               A         F#m   G
   Strange way to tell you that I know we belong
     D/A  A7
That I    know...


[Chorus and Outro]
     D  A    Bm  F#m
That I  am,  I   am
G  D/A  A      Bm        F#m  G  D/A  A7  D
I  am...   the luckiest