I Dont Want To Set The World On Fire - The Ink Spots


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                      I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire 

                              The Inkspots (1941)
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Composed by: Eddie Seiler/Sol Marcus/Bennie Benjamin/Eddie Durham

Tabbed by: Kyle Murray

E-mail: k.murr

ay23@gateshead

.org

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Chords used:

F:      133211
F/A:    x03211
Abdim7: 4x3434
Gm:     355333
Bbm:    x13321
C:      x32010
  
Gm7:    3x333x
C7:     x32310 or x3535
Bb7:    x13131
Cm7:    x35343
F7:     131211
Bb:     x13331
Dm7:    x57565 
G7:     353433

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  Time:  4/4 

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Performance Note:

Pick the root note of each chord before strumming it for that vintage sound.


[Intro]
 

 | 1     2    
  |           
e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|-------0----
A|----3-----3-
E|-1----------

 3     4    | 
             |
------------|-
------------|-
------------|-
-------0----|-
----3-----3-|-
-2----------|-

1     2     3 
             
-----------(0)
------------5-
------------3-
------0-----5-
---3-----3--3-
3-------------

   4   |

-5-3---|
---3---|
---3---|
---5---|
-------|
-------|


[Chorus]
  
             
   I_ don't wa

            
nt to set the 

       
world____on___

    
_fire,
         
       I___  j

             
ust want to st

             
art__    a fla

              
me in your hea

       
rt.
             
 In my heart I

            
 have but  one

      
___   de_si__r

     
e,
        
        and th

              
at one is you_

             
_,    no other

          
 will do___o__

     
_o.


[Bridge]
  
           
I've lost all 

            
am-bition for 

         
worldly ac-cla

   
im;
            
    I just wan

              
t to be the on

               
e you lo-ove.
           
 And with your

            
 ad-mission   

           
 that you feel

                   
 the same,
            
     I'll have

              
 reached the g

              
oal I'm dreami

            
ng of, believe

      
 me.


[Chorus]

             
   I_ don't wa

            
nt to set the 

       
world____on___

    
_fire,
        
       I___  j

              
ust want to st

             
art__    a fla

             
me in your hea

       
rt.


[Spoken Chorus]


             
     I don't w

             
anna set the w

/            
orld on fire h

          
oney. 
            
     I love yo

                    
u too much.
         
      I just  

             
wanna start a 

              
great big flam

             
e  down in you

      
r heart.    Yo

   
u see,
             
         way d

            
own inside of 

       
me,           

              
darling, I hav

            
e only one des

  
ire.
         
     And that 

              
one desire is 

             
you,    and I 

             
know nobody el

             
se ain't gonna

        
 do

                         
 | 1     2    
 |           
e|-1----------
B|-1----------
G|-2----------
D|-3----------
A|-3---1-----3
E|-1----------

  3     4  | 
  |
--------1--|
--------1--|
--------2--|
--------3--|
--------3--|
--1-----1--|


[Bridge]
   
           
I've lost all 

            
am-bition for 

         
worldly ac-cla

   
im;
            
     I just wa

              
nt to be the o

                   
ne you lo-ove.
           
 And with your

            
 ad-mission   

           
  that   you f

                   
eel the same,
            
     I'll have

              
 reached the g

              
oal I'm dreami

            
ng of, believe

        
 me.


[Outro Chorus]
 
 
             
   I_ don't wa

            
nt to set the 

       
world____on___

           
_fire,
         
       I___  j

             
ust want to st

             
art__       a 

              
flame in your 

                  
heart.



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