Bright Star - If You Knew My Story chords by Misc Musicals

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse:
       G       G7            C           G
If you knew my story, you'd have a hard time
   C      G
Believing me
       Em           D
You'd think I was lying
 G       G7     C      G
Joy and sorrow never last
 C        G             D           G
I'll die trying not to live in the past

🎸 Chorus:
       D D7      G
If you knew my story
    D            G
My heaven and my hell
       D D7      G
If you knew my story
       G           C        D
You'd have a good story to tell

🎸 Verse:
   G       G7               C          G
I left my clothes on that cold river rock
    C            G          Em         D
My cares and my woes rolled up in my socks
G      G7            C        G
I lay down in that mountain stream
         C  G      D          G
And the icy water rushed over me

🎸 Chorus:
        D          D7           G
If you knew (if you knew) my story
         D              G
Drew the water from the well
        D         D7            G
If you knew (if you knew) my story
       G           D       C Em
You'd have a good story to tell  me
     B     C
I'm not alone
C Em          A      D    D7
Tell  me I'm not alone

🎸 Verse:
      G          G7           C               G
Many backs have broken from lesser weight I know
C              G    Em                D
I was born to carry more than I can hold
      G        G7        C             G
Even though I stumble, even though I fall
        C           G
You'll never see me crumble
        D            G
You'll never see me crawl

🎸 Chorus:
        D        D7           G
If you knew (if you knew) my story
    D            G
My heaven and my hell
        D        D7           G
If you knew (if you knew) my story
       G           D       C Em
You'd have a good story to tell  me
     B     C
I'm not alone
C Em          A      D
Tell  me I'm not alone

🎸 Outro:
      G        G7        C             G
Even though I stumble, even though I fall
        C             G
You'll never see me crumble
        D
You'll never see (you'll never see)
     G     C  D  G  C  D
Me crawl

         D      G
If you knew my story