Burning Love Chords & Tabs

by Elvis Presley

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Main Pattern:
BPM: 143
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 101, 3, 101, 1, 101, 3, 101]
Alternative for D in Intro and Verse:
BPM: 143
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 3, 101, 202, 101, 3, 101]

[Intro]
D

[Verse 1]
D                G       A           D     
Lord Almighty, I feel my temperature rising
D               G            A             D   
Higher, higher, it's burning through to my soul
D                 G            A         D   
Girl, girl, girl, you're gonna set me on fire
   D                 G            A            D       
My brain is flamin', I don't know which way to go, yeah

[Chorus]
     Bm      A      G     
Your kisses lift me higher
         Bm         A    G    
Like the sweet song of a choir
    Bm       A       G  
You light my morning sky
     A       D   
With burning love

[Verse 2]
D            G         A           D     
Ooh hoo hoo, I feel my temperature rising
D                       G         A           D   
Help me, I'm flamin', I must be a hundred and nine
D                 G            A           D            
Burnin', burnin', burnin', and nothing can cool me, yeah
D                      G          A      D   
I just might turn into smoke, but I feel fine

[Chorus]
            Bm     A       G     
'Cause your kisses lift me higher
         Bm         A    G    
Like the sweet song of a choir
        Bm       A       G  
And you light my morning sky
     A       D   
With burning love

[Break]
Bm  A  G
Bm  A  G
Bm  A  G  A
D

[Verse 3]
D                       G              A          D   
It's coming closer, the flames are now licking my body
D                    G             A         D  
Won't you help me? I feel like I'm slipping away
D                    G      A         D              
It's hard to breathe, my chest is a-heavin', mmm, hmm
D                    G         A            D        
Lord have mercy, I'm burning a hole where I lay, yeah

[Chorus]
     Bm      A      G     
Your kisses lift me higher
         Bm         A    G    
Like the sweet song of a choir
    Bm       A       G  
You light my morning sky
     A       D   G
With burning love
             D   G
With burning love

[Outro]
           D                   G   
I'm just a hunka hunka burning love
       D                   G   
Just a hunka hunka burning love
       D                   G   
Just a hunka hunka burning love
(repeat and fade)