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Have I Told You Lately
Word and Music by Van Morrison
Recorded by Rod Stewart
Slowly
Bb Dm7 Ebmaj7 Eb/F Bb Dm7
Eb Eb/F
{intro}
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F
Have I told you lately that I love you?
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F
Have I told you there’s no one else above you?
Dm7 Cm7
Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness,
Bb Eb/F
ease my troubles that’s what you do.
Verse 1.
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F
For the morning sun in all it’s glory
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F Ebmaj7
greets the day with hope and comfort, too.
Dm7 Cm7
You fill my life with laughter and somehow you make it better,
Eb/F Bb
ease my troubles that’s what you do.
{chorus}
Chorus:
Cm7 Bb/D
Ebmaj7
There’s a love that’s divine
Dm7 Cm7 Dm7
and it’s yours and it’s mine….like the sun.
Ebmaj7
And at the end of the day
Dm7 Eb/F
we should give thanks and pray to the one, to the one.
{play intro}
Verse 2.
Instrumental: Same chords and tempo as Verse 1.
{Chorus}
{play outro}
Outro:
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F
And have I told lately that I love you?
Bb Dm7 Eb Eb/F
Have I told you there’s no one else above you?
Ebmaj7 Dm7 Cm7
You fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness,
Eb/F Bb Cm7 Bb/D Ebmaj7
ease my troubles that’s what you do.
Dm7 Cm7
Take away all my sadness, fill my life with gladness,
Eb/F Bb Cm7 Bb/D Ebmaj7
ease my troubles that’s what you do.
Dm7 Cm7
Take away all my sadness, fill my heart with gladness,
Eb/F Bb
ease my troubles that’s what you do……
Chords:
Bb 003331
Dm7 xx0211
Ebmaj7 x65333
Eb/F xx3343
Cm7 x35343
I think the major problem I have is trying to get these chords to sound
clear. Oh well, good luck.