{"id":16010,"date":"2023-07-22T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:54:27","slug":"for-once-in-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/for-once-in-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"For Once in my Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code class=\"yqhFQ\"><\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><span class=\"y68er\">...FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE... by Stevie Wonder\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">-------------------------.................\r\n<\/span> *from 'For Once in My Life' (1968)*\r\n<span class=\"y68er\">*CAPO 3rd FRET*\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">(Original Key: F)\r\n<\/span> \r\n \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Intro]\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\"><span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D\">C<\/span>\r\n<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\">\r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 1]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [C] once in my life, I have someone who needs me;\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Dm]  Someone I've [D] needed so [Dm] long.\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [Dm] once, una-[D]-fraid, I can [Dm] go where life leads me;\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">And [C] somehow I [G] know I'll be [C] strong.<\/span> \r\n \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Chorus 1]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [C] once, I can touch what my heart used to dream of,\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[F] Long before I [Dm] knew; [G]  <\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[C] Someone [Em] warm like [Am] you, would [Dm] make my dreams come [G] true.<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse 2]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [C] once in my life, I won't let sorrow hurt me;\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[Dm] Not like it [D] hurt me [Dm] before.\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [Dm] once I have [D] something, I [Dm] know won't desert me;\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">[C] I'm not [G] alone [C] anymore.\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Chorus 2]\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [C] once, I can say; this is mine you can't take it;\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">As [F] long as I know I have [D] love; I can make it.\r\n<\/span><span class=\"y68er\">For [C] once in my life, I have [F] someone [Dm] who [G] needs [C] me.\r\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span class=\"y68er\">[C] Someone, [F] who needs [G] me,\r\n<\/span> <\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE&#8230; by Stevie Wonder &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. *from &#8216;For Once in My Life&#8217; (1968)* *CAPO 3rd FRET* (Original Key: F) [Intro] C [Verse 1] For [C] once in my life, I have someone who needs me; [Dm] Someone I&#8217;ve [D] needed so [Dm] long. For [Dm] once, una-[D]-fraid, &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/for-once-in-my-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For Once in my Life<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,115,68,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-tony-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}