Standing On Your Shoulders chords by Ben Rector

Verse
 D
I'm on a stage right now
 G                D
And it's wild that it's me they're here to listen to
 A                      G
And not some other fool
 D
You're back in my hometown
 G                                                  A
I've been meaning to call you up and ask what you've been
doing
 G
I bet cleaning out the pool
 G                            D
You believed in me when no one did
 A                   Bm
You'll always have a part of this
 G                      D               A
Deep down I'm just a little kid hoping I make you proud

Chorus
 D
I've been standing on your shoulders
A
 For my whole life
 Bm
Wasn't 'til I started getting older
 G
That I started realizing
 D
All the ways you made a way for me
 A
And things you sacrificed
 Bm                                                   G
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders
 D
For my whole life

Post-Chorus
A               Bm G
   My whole life


Verse 2
 Bm A    D
It shouldn't be  this hard
 G                      D                            A
To tell someone the part they played in making you
 G
Guess that's why we never do
 Bm   A     D
So I wrote  this down
 G                      D                        A
It ain't half of what I'd really like to say to you
 G
But it'll have to do
 D
You had a quiet steady confidence
 A                D/F#
You said it without saying it
G                             D                      A
Days and years and brick-by-brick you said I made you proud

Chorus
 D
I've been standing on your shoulders
A
 For my whole life
 Bm
Wasn't 'til I started getting older
 G
That I started realizing
 D
All the ways you made a way for me
 A
And things you sacrificed
 Bm                                                   G
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders
 D
For my whole life

Post-Chorus
A               Bm
   My whole life
 G                                                    D    A  Bm G
I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life


Bridge
Bm
  In your rolled-up sleeves
You did the best you could
G                                                 A
  You saw the best in me and that's more than I could ask for
D  Em A



Chorus
 D
I've been standing on your shoulders
A
 For my whole life
Bm
It took getting older
 G
That I started realizing
 D
All the ways you made a way for me
 A                    F#7
And things you sacrificed
 Bm                                                   G
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders
 D
For my whole life

Post-Chorus
A               Bm
   My whole life
 G                                                    D    A
I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life
 Bm G   D
My whole life