{"id":32,"date":"2021-05-10T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=32"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:58:52","slug":"a-song-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/a-song-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">by Leon Russell\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HeHiio1sTTI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/Tutavo.com\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5brzS034jdQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/Tutavo.com\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a615c5ed6f077089230746' value='6a615c5ed6f077089230746'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a615c5ed6f077089230746' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a615c5ed6f077089230746' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6a615c5ed6f077089230746' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a615c5ed6f077089230746' ><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">Russell wrote this song for the singer Rita Coolidge, whom he was dating at the time. They met in the late &#8217;60s when Russell was one of the top session piano players and Coolidge was getting started as a singer. Russell wrote a song called <em>Delta Lady<\/em> about her that Joe Cocker recorded in 1969. She was again his muse on <em>A Song For You<\/em>, which finds him singing about their deep connection when they are alone. It&#8217;s a very intimate love song that hits hard with a line in the last verse: <em>&#8220;I love you in a place where there&#8217;s no space or time.&#8221;<\/em> Coolidge called it &#8220;The most beautiful song ever written.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"y68er\">\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 1]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Am] I've been so many places in my [E7] life and time, <\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[C] I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some [Am] bad rhyme,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">I've [F] acted out my love in [Em] stages, with [Dm] ten thousand people [Em] watching, <\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Dm] but we're alone [Em] now, and I'm [F] singing this song to you. [C] \r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 2]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Am] I know your image of me is [E7] what I hope to be,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[C] I treated you unkindly, but [D] darlin' can't you see,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">There's [F] no one more important [Em] to me, [Dm] darlin' can't you please see [Em] through me,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Dm] Cus we're alone [Em] now and I'm singing [F] this song to you. [C] <\/span>\r\n \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 3]<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"y68er\">You [Am] taught me precious [E7] secrets of the [C] truth withholding [D] nothing,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[F] You came out in front and I was [G] hiding, [C] \r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">But [Am] now I'm so much [E] better, and if my [C] words don't come to-[D]-gether,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[F] Listen to the [Em] melody, cause my [Dm] love's in there [G] hiding.\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 4]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Am] I love you in a place where there's no [E] space and time,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[C] I love you for my life, you are a [D] friend of mine,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[F] And when my life is [Em] over, re-[Dm]-member when we were to-[Em]-gether,\r\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"y68er\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[Dm] We were alone [Em] and I was singing [F] this song to you. [C]<\/span> \r\n<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Dm] We were alone [Em] and I was singing [F] this song to you. [C] \r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Dm] We were alone [Em] and I was singing [F] this song to you. [C] [G?]\r\n<\/span> \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Leon Russell\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 [Verse 1] [Am] I&#8217;ve been so many places in my [E7] life and time, [C] I&#8217;ve sung a lot of songs, I&#8217;ve made some [Am] bad rhyme, I&#8217;ve [F] acted out my love in [Em] stages, with [Dm] ten thousand people [Em] watching, [Dm] but &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/a-song-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Song for You<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,204,203,116,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-joe-cocker","category-leon-russell","category-live-baritone","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31800,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/31800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}