Believe Me I Love You True
Reharmonized Version
- Key
- F Major
- Style
- Other mixed
Sheet music
Four-part mixer
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Credits & notes
Arranged by
Paul Paddock
Learning tracks
electric piano
Lyrics
title + I love you true
Source notes
Tenor retains the melody while some other stuff happens in the harmony. I lead with inverted modified flat-9 & 6 chords, much like when a lover is pleading and trying to convince their beloved that they love them (BELIEVE me!), then deepen the love going on by flipping to stacked 5ths in the upper 3 voices with bass a 6th below them for a couple words. On the first "true" we come to a fork in the road then during the tenor post, find our way chromatically resoluto to the end. I kept close to the overall structure of the original tag rhythm-wise and in part chordally, as the original tag also begins with chords C-F on 'believe' and a G relative on the first 'love'. You'll notice another similar chord pattern to the original during the post, except instead of the scissors and upside-down U, it just goes down to F. I switched out the 'you know I do' to 'I love you true' for emphasis and following vowels, though either way works just fine.