The Manuscript chords by Taylor Swift

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

 C majorC Cmaj7Cmaj7 G+G FF

🎸 Verse:
 C majorC              Cmaj7Cmaj7
Now and then she rereads the manuscript
    G+G        FF
Of the entire torrid affair
 C majorC
They compared their licenses
   Cmaj7Cmaj7
He said, "I'm not a donor but
  G+G             FF
I'd give you my heart if you needed it"
   C majorC
She rolled her eyes and said
      Cmaj7Cmaj7
"You're a professional"
   G+G           FF
He said, "No, just a good samaritan"
   C majorC               Cmaj7Cmaj7
He said that if the sex was half as good

As the conversation was
 G+G             FF
Soon they'd be pushin' strollers
  FF     C majorC   Gsus4Gsus4 FF
But soon it was over

🎸 Instrumental:

C majorC Gsus4Gsus4 FF

🎸 Verse:
    C majorC               Cmaj7Cmaj7
In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
      G+G             FF
And made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press
 C majorC              Cmaj7Cmaj7
Afterwards she only atе kids' cereal
        G+G             FF
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed

C majorC                Cmaj7Cmaj7
Then she dated boys who were her own age
    G+G                FF
With dart boards on the backs of their doors
   C majorC
She thought about how he said
      Cmaj7Cmaj7
Since she was so wise beyond her years
  G+G           FF
Everything had been above board
 FF     C majorC Gsus4Gsus4 FF G+G
She wasn't sure

🎸 Instrumental:

C majorC Gsus4Gsus4 FF

🎸 Bridge:
     G+G
And the years passed
    A minorAm      FF
Like scenes of a show
   G+G        A minorAm        FF
The professor said to write what you know
      G+G
Lookin' backwards
   C majorC      G+G      FF
Might be the only way to move forward

     G+G
Then the actors
    A minorAm      FF
Were hitting their marks
     G+G
And the slow dance
   A minorAm        FF
Was alight with the sparks
     G+G
And the tears fell
   C majorC    G+G      FF
In synchronicity with the score
    Gsus4Gsus4
And at last
      C majorC    G+G      FF
She knew what the agony had been for


🎸 Verse:
   C majorC                Cmaj7Cmaj7
The only thing that's left is the manuscript
       G+G            FF
One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
  C majorC             Cmaj7Cmaj7
Now and then I reread the manuscript
     G+G        FF
But the story isn't mine anymore

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