Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Key: GbGb
Difficulty: Intermediate
Intro:
Ebm11/F Ebm11Ebm11 Ebm11/F Ebm11Ebm11
Verse:
Ebm11/F Ebm11Ebm11
We were still living downtown
Ebm11/F Ebm11Ebm11
My black coat thrown over my blue nightgown
Ebm11/F
You drove too fast
Ddim7Ddim7 Gb/Db Ab7/C Dbsus/Ab
The lights of the city flew past
Chorus:
Gb9Gb9 Gbsus Db7/Gb
How could I ever forget?
Gb9Gb9 Db9/F
Outside the morning was cool and wet
Dbm/Fb EbM7Ebm7
He had such chills
D MajorD+ Db7sus Ab7/C Cdim7Cdim7 Ab7/C
But still he lay there so still
Verse:
Cb5Cb5 Db/Cb
Just eighteen months old
Cbm(maj7) Cbm6Cbm6 Fb13Fb13
So cold
Gb9/Db
We ran him inside
Bbsus Bb7Bb7 EbmEbm Ab/C
Lost, worrying, wondering
Abm7Abm7 Cbm(maj7) Db7Db7
That hospital room, that gloom
Chorus:
Gb9Gb9 Gbsus
How could I ever forget?
Gb9Gb9
Screaming at doctors
Db/F
Alarmed, upset
E6E6 EbM7Ebm7
They said to wait
Dmaj7Dmaj7 Gb/Db Ab9/C
They never said we were too late
Verse:
Cb2
But I was a child
(So many years ago)
Cbm6Cbm6
Raising a child
(So much we could not know)
Gb9/Db
Those weeks full of joy
Bb7susBb7sus Bb7Bb7 Ebm11Ebm11 Ab9/C
Then a moment of dread
Abm9Abm9 Db2
Someone simply said your child is...
Chorus:
Gb9Gb9 Db7sus/Gb
How could I ever forget?
Gb9Gb9 Db7sus/Gb
This was the moment my life was set
GbGb Ab7sus/F
That day that I lost you
Gbsus/E EbM7Ebm7 D6D6
It's clear as the day we met
Db7Db7 Ebm11/F Ebm11Ebm11 GbGb
How could I ever forget?