{"id":94,"date":"2021-05-10T01:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:06:55","slug":"and-i-love-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/and-i-love-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Love you So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">by Don McClean <span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"> \u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a61690cc48f58031932069' value='6a61690cc48f58031932069'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a61690cc48f58031932069' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a61690cc48f58031932069' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6a61690cc48f58031932069' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a61690cc48f58031932069' ><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;font-weight: 900;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\">And I Love You So&#8221; is a popular song written by folk singer and guitarist Don McLean and released on his 1970 debut album, Tapestry. Its chorus features an unusual rhyming scheme for a popular song: A-B-B-A versus the usual A-B-C (or A)-B.<br \/>\nThe song has been recorded by many artists in the years since McLean&#8217;s original version. It was a 1973 hit for singer Perry Como on his RCA Victor album of the same name, And I Love You So, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It would be the last of his many popular recordings, dating back to 1943, to reach the Top 40. It also spent one week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart. It reached No. 2 in South Africa and in Britain, the record reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart on RCA Records and remained on the chart for 35 weeks (the longest of his hits in the UK).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"P8ReX\">\n<div>\n<section class=\"OnD3d kmZt1\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><code class=\"yqhFQ\"><\/code><\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"> \r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] And I love you [Am] so.\u00a0 The people [Am7] ask me [Gm7] how . . .\u00a0 [Em] How I've lived till [Am7] now.\u00a0 [C] I tell them I don't [D7] know.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] I guess they [Am] understand, [Am7] how lonely life has [G] been . . .\u00a0 But [Em] life began [Am7] again - [C] The day you took my [G] hand<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">And [G] yes, I know how [Am7] lonely life can be.\u00a0 The [D7] shadows follow me, and the [G7] night won't [C] set me [G] free.\u00a0 . . . . But [GMAJ7] I don't [EM] let the [Am7] evening get me down,\u00a0 [D7] now that you're [G7] around [G] me.\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] And you love me [Am] too. Your [Am7] thoughts are just for [G] me. . . . [Em] You set my spirit [Am7] free. \u00a0 I'm [C] happy that you [D] do.\u00a0 <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The [G] book of life is [Am] brief.\u00a0 And [Am7] once a page is [G] read,\u00a0\u00a0 [Em] all but love is [Am7] dead [C] That is my [G] belief.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">And [G] yes, I know how [Am7] loveless life can be.\u00a0 The [D7] shadows follow me, and the [G7] night won't [C] set me [G] free.\u00a0 . . . . But [GMAJ7] I don't [Em] let the [Am7] evening get me down,\u00a0 [D7] now that you're [G7] around [G] me.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">[G] And I love you [Am] so.\u00a0 The people [Am7] ask me [Gm7] how . . .\u00a0 [Em] How I've lived till [Am7] now.\u00a0 [C] I tell them I don't [D7] know.<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Don McClean \u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; [G] And I love you [Am] so.\u00a0 The people [Am7] ask me [Gm7] how . . .\u00a0 [Em] How I&#8217;ve lived till [Am7] now.\u00a0 [C] I tell them I don&#8217;t [D7] know. [G] I guess they [Am] understand, [Am7] how lonely life has [G] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/and-i-love-you-so\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And I Love you So<\/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":[126,235,59,116,117,68,205,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bass-guitar-night","category-don-mcclain","category-elvis","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-perry-como","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30781,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tutavo.com\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}