If You Knew My Story chords

Steve Martin

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        G       G            C           G 
If you knew my story, you'd have a hard time 
   C      G 
Believing me 
       G           D 
You'd think I was lying 
 G       G     C      G 
Joy and sorrow never last 
 C        G             D           G 
I'll die trying not to live in the past 

        D       G 
If you knew my story 
    D            G 
My heaven and my hell 
        D       G 
If you knew my story 
       G           C        D 
You'd have a good story to tell 

   G       G               C          G 
I left my clothes on that cold river rock  
    C            G          G         D 
My cares and my woes rolled up in my socks 
G      G            C        G 
I lay down in that mountain stream 
         C  G      D          G 
And the icy water rushed over me 

        D                     G 
If you knew (if you knew) my story 
    D            G 
My heaven and my hell 
        D                     G 
If you knew (if you knew) my story 
       G           C        Em  G 
You'd have a good story to tell  me  
     Am     C 
I'm not alone 
 Em  G        A      D 
Tell  me I'm not alone 

      G          G           C               G 
Many backs have broken from lesser weight I know 
C              G    G                D 
I was born to carry more than I can hold 
      G        G        C             G 
Even though I stumble, even though I fall 
        C           G 
You'll never see me tumble 
        D            G 
You'll never see me crawl 

        D                     G 
If you knew (if you knew) my story 
    D            G 
My heaven and my hell 
        D                     G 
If you knew (if you knew) my story 
       G           C        Em  G 
You'd have a good story to tell  me  
     Am     C 
I'm not alone 
 Em  G        A      D 
Tell  me I'm not alone 

      G        G        C             G 
Even though I stumble, even though I fall 
        C             G 
You'll never see me tumble 
        D 
You'll never see (you'll never see) 
     G   C  D  G  C  D 
Me crawl 

         D      G 
If you knew my story