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The I Love You Song

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William Alan Finn (b. February 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an award-winning American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals.

William Finn grew up in Natick, Massachusetts with his parents and siblings, Michael and Nancy. He majored in music at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He lives with his life partner in New York City and Pittsfield, MA, where he is an independent composer and writer. He is also "Adjunct Faculty Composer/Lyricist" at NYU.

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OLIVE
D5
If I go to Washington
D5
Will I be on my own?
D5
Because if I go to Washington

D5
(Aaaaaaaah)

(no chord) D Dmaj7 D7 Dmaj7
Who will be my chaperone?

OLIVE’S MOM
D Dmaj7 D7 Dsus7 D7
We always knew you were a winner
G E7/G# D2/A D/A D7sus D7
We saw it when you smiled
G Gm6
Start from the beginning
D2/A D Bsus7 B7
When you were a beginner
Esus7 E A11 A
You were the perfect child
D
We always knew
Dmaj7
We always knew
D7 Dsus7 D7
You were a champion
G E7/G# D2/A D/A Dsus7 D7
Your sadness filled my room
G Gm6 D2/A D
Dear if you should feel my gloom
B7sus B7
Blame it on me
E7sus E
Blame it on your daddily and mammily
A11 F#m7 E7/G# F#7/A#
‘Cause depression runs in our family
Bm F# F#/G# F#/A# G#m7(4) F# F#/A#
I love you
D C#m7 F#7
I love you
G E7sus E7
I love everything about you dear
A7sus A7
And I swear it’s true
F# F#7/A# F#7 F#7/A#
I love you

OLIVE’S DAD
Bm F# F#/G# F#/A# G#m7(4) F# F#/A#
I love you

OLIVE
And my dad says

OLIVE’S DAD, OLIVE’S MOM
D C#m7 F#7
I love you
G E7sus E7
I love everything about you babe
A7sus A7
And maybe it’s true
F# F#/A# Bm
I love you

OLIVE
Bm G13
I wrote you a letter
C#7 F#7
How I found the spelling bee such fun
Bm A/C# D
Mama, Mama, Mama
G13 G7 F#+ F#
But you didn’t react
Bm G13
And you never asked me
C#7 F#7
If I’d join you in the Bombay sun
Bm A/C# D
Mama, Mama, Mama
G13 G7 F#+ F#
I had quietly packed
C6 B7(#5) B7
When are you returning?
Gm6/Bb D2/A D/A
I know we agreed
C6 B7(#5) B7
Tell me what you’re learning
Gm6/Bb F#m F#7
Ma, I have, Oh God, this need
Bm G13 G7
I think Dad is angry, Ma
C#7 F#7
And I do not know what to do
Bm A/C# D
Mama, Mama, Mama
G13 G7 F#+ F#
Shanti Shanti and ohm
Bm G13 G7
I think he takes out on me
C#7 F#7
What he wants to take out on you
Bm A/C# D
Mama, Mama, Mama
G13 G7 F#
How I wish you were home
G13 G7 F#
How I wish you were home
G13 G7
How I wish you were
G13 G7
Wish you were

OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD OLIVE
D Dmaj7 D7 D7sus D7 D Dmaj7 D7 D7sus D7
We always knew you were a winner Home
G E7/G#
How I wish you were home
OLIVE’S MOM
G E7/G# D2/A D/A D7sus D2/A D/A
A bathing beauty, you How I wish you were
D7sus G Gm6
How I wish you were home
OLIVE’S DAD
G Gm6 D D
God, we love the way you grew How I wish you were
B7sus B7 E7sus B7sus B7 E7sus E
Since you were born How I wish you were home

OLIVE’S MOM
E7sus E A11
Olive, we couldn’t be prouder Mama, Mama, Mama

OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD (overlapping Olive)
A11 F#7 E/G# F#7/A# Bm
Please let me say it How I wish you were home
F#7 E/G# F#7/A#
One time louder

OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD
Bm F# F#/G# F#/A# F#/G# F# F#/A#
I love you
D C#m7 F#7
I love you
G E7sus E7
I love everything about you dear
A7sus A7
And I swear It’s true
F# F#7/A# Bm
I love you

OLIVE, OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD
Bm F# F#/G# F#/A# F#/G# F# F#/A#
I love you

D C#m7 F#7
I love you

G E7sus E7
I love everything about you dear
A7sus A7
And I swear, maybe it’s true

F# F#7/A#
I love

N.C.
OLIVE
Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful.

OLIVE, OLIVE’S MOM, OLIVE’S DAD
N.C.
I love
B
you