Superman Chords

Capo: 3rd fret; Key Bb

[Verse 1]
G                                Em
There’s a little blonde boy in a superman cape
C                      G
Racing around the back yard;
         G                       Em
Sayin’, “Daddy don’t you know I can fly to the moon;
          C                   D
I’m gonna bring you back some stars.
    C                     G
And after that I’m gonna save the world”
          C        G
Cause I’m superman today.”
  G              C
I scoop that boy right into my arms,
    D             G
And this is what I say:
 
 
[Chorus]
G                C            G
You don’t need a cape to be a hero
G                                          D
You’ve got all the special powers that you need
      C                D.                  Em
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
           C         D           G
And you’ll always be superman to me.
 
 
[Verse 2]
 G                            Em
That little blonde boy in the cape again
 C                           G
Says he’s gonna jump off the deck.
 G                            Em
I say: “Little man, can’t you just slow on down;
    C                              D
One day you’re going to break your neck.”
          C                     G
He says, “Don’t you know that I can’t get hurt
            C          G
Because I’m superman today.”
G                            Em
Well, I scoop that boy right into my arms
    C              G
And this is what I say:
 
 
[Chorus]
G                C            G
You don’t need a cape to be a hero
G                                          D
You’ve got all the special powers that you need
      C                D                   Em
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
           C         D           G
And you’ll always be superman to me.
 
 
[Verse 3]
 G                            Em
One day he woke up and didn’t want his cape,
       C                           G
And we knew that something weren’t right
    G                 Em
The doctors said, “We just don’t know.
   C                            D
We better keep him here for the night.”
     C                 G
So I held his hand and stroked his hair
      C                      G
Until somehow he fell off to sleep
       G                       Em
Then I knelt at the window and prayed to the stars:
C            G
God, help me leap.
 
 
[Verse 4]
     G                    Em
I’ve never been much of a praying man;
     C                      G
I’ve never had a faith very clear,
    G                       Em
But give me a sign and I’ll step into line—
     C                 D
Just get my boy out of here.
     C                       G
I’ll give you everything any man’s ever got.
              C               G
I’ll give you every bit of my love—
      G           Em
And a prayer came back to me
     C             G
In a whisper from above…saying:
 
 
[Chorus]
G                C              G
You don’t need a cape to be his hero
G                                          D
You’ve got all the special powers that you need
      C                D                   Em
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
           C         D           G
And you’ll always be superman to me.
 
 
[Verse 5]
 G                           Em
That little boy woke up in a hospital room
           C         G
Looking so quiet and sad.
  G                                Em
I bring him in his cape and I say “Big man,
 C                    D
How about a smile for Dad?”
          C                   G
And those wide blue eyes fill up with tears
     C              G
“I’m not superman today.”
        G                      Em
Well, I scooped that boy right into my arms
    C              G
And this is what I said,
 
 
[Chorus]
G                C             G
You don’t need a cape to be my hero
G                                          D
You’ve got all the special powers that you need
      C                D                   Em
Your smile’s enough to save the world from evil
           C         D           G
And you’ll always be superman to me.
             C         D           G
Yeah, you’ll always be superman to me…