Intro, rubato
| Em | C | Dsus4 |
In tempo
| G | C/G | G | C/G | G | D11 | C | G |
| → | → | → |
| G | C/G | G | C | D | |
| Lookin b | ack | → | on the mem | ’ry of the dan | ce we shared |
| G | D | |
| ‘Neath the sta | rs above |
| G | C/G | G | C | |
| For a mom | ent | → | all the wor | ld was right |
| D | |
| How could I h | ave known |
| Em | D/F# | |
| That you’d ev | er say goodbye |
| C | D | |
| And | now, I’m glad I didn’t | know |
| Bm | |
| The way it all would | end |
| C | D | |
| The way it all would | go |
| C | D | |
| Our | lives, are better left to | chance |
| Bm | |
| I could have missed the | pain |
| C | D | G | |
| But I’d have had to | miss | the | dance |
| G | C/G | G | C/G | G | D11 | C | G |
| → | → | → |
| C | D | |
| Holding you I held eve | rything for a mom | ent |
| G | D | |
| Wasn’t | I the king? |
| G | C | |
| If I’d o | nly known how the kin | g would fall |
| D | |
| Hey who | ’s to say |
| Em | D | |
| You know, I mig | ht have changed it a | ll |
| C | D | |
| And | now, I’m glad I didn’t | know |
| Bm | |
| The way it all would | end |
| C | D | |
| The way it all would | go |
| C | D | |
| Our | lives, are better left to | chance |
| Bm | |
| I could have missed the | pain |
| C | D | G | |
| But I’d have had to | miss | the | dance |
| G | C/G | G |
| → |
| Am7 | G/B |
| → | → |
| C | D | |
| Yes my | life, it’s better left to | chance |
| Bm | |
| I could have missed the | pain |
| C | D | G | |
| But I’d have had to | miss | the | dance |
Rubato
| Em | C | Dsus4 | Em |
| x2 |