Bedtime chords by Gordon Downie

Chords with lyrics

Part 1:

FF
  I held you
Cm7/E
  I rocked you to sleep
C majorC           Dm7Dm7
  It'd take a long time but eventually you'd go

FF
  And I'd try to get out
Cm7/E
  Of the rocking chair
C majorC          Dm7Dm7
  With you in my arms

FF
 I'd get you to your crib
Cm7/E
 Slowly lower you down
C majorC            Dm7Dm7
 Then pull my hands away, as if from a bomb

Part 2:

Fadd9Fadd9
 Then I'd step away
C majorC
 One step at a time
G+G             Am7Am7
 The floors were full of sounds, all the creaks for time

Fadd9Fadd9
 Then I'd get to the door
C majorC
 Open it carefully
G+G             A minorAm
 Tryin' back out of the room so quietly

Cm7/E C majorC Dm7Dm7

FF
 When I got to the door
Cm7/E
 Closed to within an inch
C majorC
 That's when you'd come awake
Dm7Dm7          Fadd9Fadd9
 As if you'd been watchin' me

 Watching me the whole time
C majorC
 As if you waited to see
G+G        Am7Am7
 If I truly intended, just to let you be

Fadd9Fadd9
 Just to leave
C majorC
 Just to leave you alone
G+G           FF
 Just to leave you alone


Part 3:

FF
 How you would cry
FF
 And I'd come back
FF         C majorC
 Yeah, I'd come back

        FF
 And lift you up
       C majorC
 Sit back down with you
          FF
 Try to start all over again
       C majorC
 Start slowly rocking again
       FF       C majorC
 Start all over again, ah-ha

         FF
 We'd start all over again
      FF
 I'd come back
      FF
 Lift you up
       FF
 Start all over again