How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

James Taylor

(Holland, Dozier, Holland) 1964



How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G G7]

How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G C7]



I needed the shelter of someone's arms and there you were [G Em D C7]

I needed someone to understand my ups and downs

and there you were [G Em D C7]

With sweet love and devotion

deeply touching my emotion [G C7 G C7]

I want to stop and thank you baby [G C7]

I just want to stop and thank you baby [G]



How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G G7]

How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G C7]



I close my eyes at night,

wondering where would I be without you in my life [G Em D C7]

Everything I did was just a bore,

everywhere I went it seems I'd been there before [G Em D C7]

But you brightened up for me all of my days

With a love so sweet in so many ways [G C7 G C7]

I want to stop and thank you baby [G C7]

I want to stop and thank you baby [G]



How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G G7]

How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G C7]



You were better for me than I was for myself [G C7]

For me, there's you and there ain't nobody else [G C7]

I want to stop and thank you baby [G C7]

I just want to stop and thank you baby [G]



How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G G7]

How sweet it is to be loved by you [C Am D7 G C7