Who's Gonna Know? Chords
by Kathy Mattea
Who's Gonna Know? by Kathy Mattea is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords G, C, D, Am7, Am, Em and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Kathy Mattea on "Walking Away A Winner"
Intro: G C G C
G C
On the top of my desk mid the clutter and dust
G C
sits an old 5x8 black and white
G C
It's one of my favorite pictures of us
C D
I'll carry with me all my life
Am7 D G
I must have been a-bout five or six
Am C G
Mom's hair was still brown and Dad's was still thick
C Em C G
But to look at it now some-times I get scared
C Em C D
To think that some-day they might not be there
C D G
'Cause who's gonna know but me
C D G C
Who'll help me recall those small mem-o-ries
Am D G C
I'm all that's left of this family of three
Am D G C
Who's gonna know but me?
G C
Down in the cellar under the steps
G C
Sits an old box of junk that I've saved
G C
Newspaper clippings, letters and cards
C D
Even some code-a-phone tapes
Am7 D G
Slices of life I can hold in my hand
Am C G
And show to my kids so they might under-stand
C Em C G
In those years to come when they ask me some night
C Em C D
What Grandma and Grandpa used to be like
C D G
'Cause who's gonna know but me
C D G C
Who'll help me recall those small mem-o-ries
Am D G C
I'm all that's left of this family of three
Am D G
Who's gonna know but me?
Bm C
If life were a video I could rewind
Bm C
I'd go back and slow down each moment in time
Bm C G
Then I'd disconnect the fast forward button
C G C D
So I'd have for-ever to tell 'em I love 'em
C G C D
The older I get, I can't get enough of 'em
C D G
'Cause who's gonna know but me
C D G C
Who'll help me recall all those mem-o-ries
Am D G C
I'm all that's left of this family of three
Am D G
Who's gonna know but me?
C D G
Who's gonna know but me?