I’m A Believer

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https://courgettes.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Im-A-Believer-mix-5.mp3

intro - Farfisa riff and guitar
 
verse 1
|G                 |D           |G           |
I thought love was only true in fairy tales 
|G                |D               |G          |
Meant for someone else but not for me. 
|C              |G      |C                   |G
Love was out to get me  -  that's the way it seemed.
|C             |G             |D        |/
Disappointment haunted all my dreams.
 
chorus
               |G-C-G  |C              |G-C-G
Then I saw her face,       now I'm a believer 
|C       |G-C-G  |C               |G-C-G   |
   Not a trace     of doubt in my mind.
       |G/    |C/       |G/
I'm in love,    I'm a believer! 
           |F/            |D      |  C-D F riff
I couldn't leave her if I tried.
 
verse 2
|G                 |D             |G           | 
I thought love was more or less a given thing, 
|G               |D              |G         |
Seems the more I gave the less I got. 
|C                  |G      |C               |G
  What's the use in tryin'?   All you get is pain.
|C              |G             |D
  When I needed sunshine I got rain.
 
chorus
               |G-C-G  |C              |G-C-G
Then I saw her face,       now I'm a believer 
|C       |G-C-G  |C               |G-C-G   |
   Not a trace     of doubt in my mind.
       |G/    |C/       |G/
I'm in love,    I'm a believer! 
           |F/            |D     |  C-D F riff
I couldn't leave her if I tried.
 
verse 3
|G     |D     |G     |   
ba ba ba...   (electric piano)
|G     |D     |G     |  
ba ba ba...
|C                  |G      |C               |G
  What's the use in tryin'?   All you get is pain.
|C              |G             |D
  When I needed sunshine I got rain.
 
chorus
               |G-C-G  |C              |G-C-G
Then I saw her face,       now I'm a believer 
|C       |G-C-G  |C               |G-C-G   |
   Not a trace     of doubt in my mind.
       |G/    |C/       |G/
I'm in love,    I'm a believer! 
           |F/            |D     |  C-D F riff
I couldn't leave her if I tried.
 
outro
               |G-C-G  |C              |G-C-G
Then I saw her face,       now I'm a believer 
|C       |G-C-G  |C               |G-C-G
   Not a trace     of doubt in my mind.
|C      | G - C - G            
I'm a believer, yeah yeah yeah 
   |C                 | G - C - G 
   yeah yeah, I'm a believer, 
|C      | G - C - G            
I'm a believer, yeah yeah yeah 
   |C                 | G - C - G/   |G/
   yeah yeah, I'm a believer,