I’ve tabbed this song in two different keys so you can choose between
the Key of F (much easier for this song) to match the original record
from Elvin Bishop. Or you can choose the Key of E (at the bottom)
if you’d like play along with the Rod Stewart video. Your choice!
Fooled Around And Fell In Love (Key of F)
I must have been through about a million girls
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I’d love ’em and I’d leave ’em alone
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I didn’t care how much they cried, no sir
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Their tears left me cold as a stone
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But then I fooled around and fell in love
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I fooled around and fell in love
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I fooled around and fell in love
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I fooled around and fell in love
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It used to be when I’d see a girl that I liked
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I’d get out my book and write down her name
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But when the grass got a little greener on the other side
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I’d just tear out that page
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But then I fooled around and fell in love
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I fooled around and fell in love
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I fooled around and fell In love
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I fooled around and fell in love
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Free, on my own, that’s the way it used to be
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But since I met you baby, love’s got a hold on me
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Fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell In love
I fooled around and fell in love
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Fooled Around And Fell In Love (Key of E)
I must have been through about a million girls
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I’d love ’em and I’d leave ’em alone
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I didn’t care how much they cried, no sir
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Their tears left me cold as a stone
5* 6 5* -4 6 5* -4 3* -2* 2
But then I fooled around and fell in love
-4 4* -4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 -5*
I fooled around and fell in love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 5* -4 5* -4 -3
I fooled around and fell in love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 7* 7* -6* 5* 6
I fooled around and fell in love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 5* -4 5* -4 -3
It used to be when I’d see a girl that I liked
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I’d get out my book and write down her name
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But when the grass got a little greener on the other side
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I’d just tear out that page
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But then I fooled around and fell in love
-4 4* -4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 -5*
I fooled around and fell in love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 5* -4 -3
I fooled around and fell In love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 -6* 7* -6* 5* 6
I fooled around and fell in love
-4 7* 6 -6* 5* 6 6 5* -4 -3
Free, on my own, that’s the way it used to be
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But since I met you baby, love’s got a hold on me
5* 6 6 6 5* -6* 7* -8 -7 -7 7* -7 6 6
Fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell In love
I fooled around and fell in love
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