How Can I Tell You Chords

  			
Prelude 
G 
Communication is a skill you must acquire, 
        C 
it will help you through your life, it is essential 
G 
You have to walk into this world with your head held high, 
                C 
be fluid child, don't become crystalline, 
C 
you're gonna have to swim with the molecules 

C               G 
How can I tell you, you have to open up your heart 
C               G 
How can I tell you, be honest from the very start 
        C 
How I feel, make a stand for what is true 
C 
Try to be decent in all that you do. 
C               G 
How can I tell you, you've got to give to get support 
C               G 
How can I tell you, a little effort & a lot more thought 
C 
How I feel, check the wonder in all that you see 
C 
You've got to get loving unconditionally. 

Verse 
G 
You're gonna have to walk that road, you're gonna bear some heavy loads 
C 
You'll make mistakes & you'll come close 
C 
You're gonna get hurt by the one you love most 

G 
You're gonna have to take some pain, accept the loss to live again 
C 
Forgive yourself as you'll be free, 
C 
there's more to love than just loving you see. 

C               G 
How can I tell you, the laughter on a crowded bus 
C               G 
How can I tell you, making space when you're being crushed 
        C 
How I feel, a letter I receive from you 
C 
A hug & a kiss when you're feeling blue 
C               G 
How can I tell you, the last chocolate in the box 
C               G 
How can I tell you, a pair of mittens & some cotton socks 
C 
How I feel, I'll make a fire when you are cold 
C 
Don't worry darling I'll love you when you grow old 

Instrumental 

G 4 bars 
C 4 bars 
G 4 bars 
C 4 bars 

C             G 
How can I tell you, 6 candles on your birthday cake 
C               G 
How can I tell you, a Christmas card that I helped you make 
C 
How I feel, when you ran in your first race 
C 
The time I stuck an ice cream in your face 
C             G 
How can I tell you, the last chocolate in the box 
C               G 
How can I tell you, a pair of mittens & some cotton socks 
C               G 
How I feel, I'll make a fire when you are cold 
C 
Don't worry darling I'll love you when you grow old