"And I Love You So"
Composed and Sung by Don McLean circa 1973


[Intro]


[Verse 1]
            
And I love you


 so.
              
The people ask

        
 me how,
              
How I've lived

         
 till now.
              
I tell them I 

          
don't know.
              
I guess they u

  
nderstand
              
How lonely lif

           
e has been.
              
But life began

      
 again
              
The day you to

                  
ok my hand.

[Chorus 1]
         
And, yes, I kn

              
ow how lonely 

  
life can be.
             
The shadows fo

              
llow me, and t

    
he night won't

 set me free.
           
But I don't le

             
t the evening 


get me down
             
Now that you'r

      
e around me.

[Adlib]
      

[Verse 2]
             
And you love m

  
e, too.
              
Your thoughts 

             
are just for m

   
e;
              
You set my spi

         
rit free.
              
I'm happy that

      
 you do.

              
The book of li

      
fe is brief
              
And once a pag

          
e is read,
              
All but love i

      
s dead.
             
That is my bel

     
ief.

[Chorus 2]
             
And, yes, I kn

          
ow how loveles

s life can be.
             
The shadows fo

              
llow me, and t

    
he night won't

 set me free.
           
But I don't le

        
t the evening 

bring me down
             
Now that you'r

       
e around me.

[Verse 3]
            
And I love you


 so.
              
The people ask

        
 me how,
              
How I've lived

         
 till now.
              
I tell them I 

        \\\
don't know.