My Old Flame chords by Ray Stevens

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Verse 1
D 
F#m 
G 
C 
F#m 
Fdim 
C# 
Em 
Ab 
 (D major) My Old  (F sharp minor)  (G major)  (C major)  (F sharp minor)  (Fdim)  (C sharp major)  (E minor)  (A flat major) 
A 
D 
F#m 
Am 
 (A major) My  (D major) old  (F sharp minor) flame  (A minor) 
B 
Em 
C 
 (B major) I  (E minor) can't even think of her  (C major) name
Am 
A 
D 
C 
But  (A minor)  (A major) it's  (D major) funny, now and  (C major) then
F 
Bb 
How my  (F major) thoughts go flashing  (B flat major) back again
Em 
A 
C 
to my  (E minor) old  (A major) flame  (C major) 
F 
Dm 
 (F major) I've met so  (D minor) many
Gm 
A 
who had  (G minor) fascinating ways  (A major) 
D 
Daug 
D 
G 
A  (D major) fascinat (Daug) ing gaze  (D major) in their  (G major) eyes
C 
A 
Dm 
Some  (C major) who took me up to the  (A major) skies  (D minor) 
E 
But  (E major) their attempts at love
A 
D 
F#m 
Am 
B 
Were  (A major) only imitations of  (D major) my  (F sharp minor) old    (A minor) flame  (B major) 
Em 
C 
I  (E minor) can't even think of her  (C major) name
A 
D 
C 
 (A major) But I'll  (D major) never be the  (C major) same
F 
Bb 
Em 
A 
D 
E 
B 
F#m 
Until  (F major) I  discover what  (B flat major) became of my  (E minor)  (A major) old  (D major) flame  (E major)  (B major)  (F sharp minor) 
A 
E 
G 
C 
 (A major)  (E major)  (G major)  (C major) 
F#m 
B 
E 
B 
 (F sharp minor)  (B major)  (E major)  (B major) 
F#m 
A 
F#m 
A 
E 
G 
C 
 (F sharp minor)  (A major)  (F sharp minor)  (A major)  (E major)  (G major)  (C major) 
F#m 
B 
E 
 (F sharp minor)  (B major)  (E major) 
B 
D 
F#m 
Am 
 (B major) My  (D major) old  (F sharp minor) flame,  (A minor) 
B 
Em 
C 
I  (B major)  (E minor) can't even think of her  (C major) name.
A 
I'll  (A major) have to look through my
collection of human heads,
B 
D 
C 
but  (B major) it's  (D major) funny, now an (C major) d then,
F 
Bb 
how my  (F major) thoughts go flashing  (B flat major) back again
Em 
A 
D 
F#m 
to  (E minor) my old  (A major) flame, my  (D major) old  (F sharp minor) flame.
Am 
B 
Em 
C 
 (A minor) My  (B major)  (E minor) new lovers all seem so  (C major) tame,
A 
 (A major) they won't even let me strangle them.
D 
C 
For I  (D major) haven't met a  (C major) girl
F 
Bb 
so mag (F major) nificent an (B flat major) d   elegant
Em 
A 
as  (E minor) my old flame.  (A major) 
C 
F 
Gm 
I  (C major) met  (F major) so many with  (G minor) fascinating ways
A 
D 
Daug 
D 
G 
 (A major) an (D major) d  a  (Daug) fas    cinating gaze  (D major) in  (G major) their eyes.
I saw this eye,
so I removed the other eye.
That eye that kept winking and blinking
C 
and I remember it was...  (C major) 
A 
Some took me up to  (A major) the skies.
Dm 
E 
 (D minor) But their  (E major) attempts at love
A 
D 
F#m 
A 
Am 
were  (A major) only imitations of  (D major) my  (F sharp minor) old  (A major) flame.  (A minor) 
B 
Em 
 (B major) I can (E minor) 't even think of her name.
C 
A 
 (C major) What was her  (A major) name?
Doris? Laura?
Chloe? Manny? Moe? Jack?
A 
 (A major) No, it couldn't have been Moe.
I can't stand it, I tell you!
It's driving me sane!
D 
C 
She would  (D major) always treat  (C major) me mean,
F 
Bb 
so  (F major) I  poured a can of  (B flat major) gasoline
Em 
and struck a match...  (E minor) ...to
A 
D 
my...  (A major) ...old...  (D major) ...plane. you