If You Knew My Story Chords
by Steve Martin
If You Knew My Story by Steve Martin is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em, Am and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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