The Manuscript chords by Taylor Swift (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A

🎸 Intro:

A   E     D    (x2)

🎸 Verse:
A                                E
Now and then she rereads the manuscript
                        D
Of the entire torrid affair
A
They compared their licenses
    E
He said, "I'm not a donor but
                              D
I'd give you my heart if you needed it"
     A
She rolled her eyes and said
               E
"You're a professional"
                               D
He said, "No, just a good samaritan"
    A                                 E
He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was
                          D
Soon they'd be pushin' strollers
        A
But soon it was over

🎸 Instrumental:
E    D
A    E     D

🎸 Verse:
        A                                E
In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
                                     D
And made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press
A                                E
Afterwards she only atе kids' cereal
                                         D
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed
A                                  E
Then she dated boys who were her own age
                                        D
With dart boards on the backs of their doors
      A                                  E
She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years
                           D
Everything had been above board
            A
She wasn't sure

🎸 Instrumental:
E     D
A     E     D

🎸 Bridge:
         E
And the years passed
       F#m           D
Like scenes of a show
        E               F#m              D
The Professor said to write what you know
         E
Lookin' backwards
       A            E             D
Might be the only way to move forward
          E
Then the actors
      F#m             D
Were hitting their marks
         E
And the slow dance
      F#m               D
Was alight with the sparks
          E
And the tears fell
     A        E               D
In synchronicity with the score
        E
And at last
          A            E            D
She knew what the agony had been for

🎸 Verse:
     A                                 E
The only thing that's left is the manuscript
                                        D
One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
A                              E
Now and then I reread the manuscript
                         D
But the story isn't mine anymore