Beauty and the Beast

Words & Music by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken
Recorded by Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson, 1991
From the Walt Disney movie of the same name, 1991



  D9           A7sus4 A7 D9               A7sus4  A7		
Tale as old as time,         true as it can be.

D             DM7     F#m	   F#m7      G9
Barely even friends, then some - bod - y bends

G         G/F#       A7sus4  A7
Un - ex - pec - ted - ly.


   D9          A7sus4  A7    D                Am7
Just a little change . . . small, to say the least;

  D7            G9      F#m7           Em7
Both a little scared, neither one pre-pared --

A7sus4    A7        D
 Beauty  and the beast.


A7sus4         F#m   G9  G           F#m  G9
Ever just the same       ever a surprise,

G          F#m    G9   G      Bm
Ever as before,  ever just as sure

Bm7-5	         C    C/B  A7
As the sun will rise.


D9             A7sus4  A7  D9                A7sus4   A7	
Tale as old as time,            tune as old as song.

D                DM7	  F#m   F#m7      G9
Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change,

  G      G/F#    A7sus4   A7
Learning you were wrong.


   D9         A7sus4   A7  D               Am7
Certain as the sun,          rising in the East.

 D7             G9   F#m7            Em7
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme --

A7sus4   A7	  D
Beauty  and the beast.


Coda:

D7              G9   F#m7           Em7
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme --

A7sus4   A7	  D
Beauty  and the beast.

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