How Was I to Know Chords

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How Was I to Know by John Michael Montgomery is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, Bm, G, A, A7, E9 and Gm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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        D           Bm       D              Bm 
Well I hoped and I prayed I loved you from afar 
   D            Bm       D             Bm 
I cried and I dreamed wished on every star 
       G 
But nothing I do got me closer to you 
        A                     A7 
So I locked all my feelings inside 
 D        Bm      D              Bm 
Then one night across a crowded room  
      D       Bm        D                  Bm 
You looked my way your eyes held something new 
      G 
You walked right up to me Smiled tenderly  
     A                     A7 
The words came as such a surprize 

(A7)    D                     Bm      E9 
How was I to know?  You never let it show 
                    G                               Gm    A  
What a beauty like you might see in a poor boy like me-ee-ee 
A7        D                          Bm     E9 
How could I have seen?  You walk out of my dreams  
                           G 
Shining your light on my sleeping heart 
         Gm       A 
Into my soul-oul-oul 
        Gm    A7      D 
How was I-I-I-I   to know? 
 
 
      D      Bm       D             Bm 
You took my hand and led me to the door 
     D             Bm      D                  Bm 
We talked and we laughed about all the times before 
G                                 A                      A7 
Two lonely peple so much in love pass like ships in the night 
 
chorus, lead, to ending 
 
ENDING: 
A7        D                           Bm 
How could I have seen?  You  walk out of my dreams  
                            G 
Shining your light on my sleeping heart 
        Gm        A 
Into my soul-oul-oul 
        Gm    A 
How was I-I-I-I 
        Gm    A7    D 
How was I-I-I-I to know? 
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante