The Woman I Was Before chords by Maureen O'Hara
Verse 1
D
G
We were born a little too soon,
D
Brasheel,
Em
D
Too soon, too soon to reach for the moon,
Brasheel,
Bm
G
Em
Our lives were settled long
G
D
before we met.
F#m
The walls were too high to climb,
Ebdim
Brasheel,
A
Ebdim
F#m
Who knows, perhaps in joyous
Ebdim
F#dim
times we'll rush ill,
A
But as for now,
C#m
F#m
A
C#m
the world's not ready for us yet.
E
A
I love you for the man you are,
E
A
and for the man you'll be,
F#m
A
And whether in Ireland,
D
A
my sad lonely Ireland,
Bm
D
Bm
G
A
Or on your side of the sea
D
G
F#m
Em
The same little stars that shine above
D
Bm
Em
Will al ways be there
A
Em
A
Love doesn't end with
D
A
merely saying goodbye
D
G
F#m
G
Y ese sueño tan que he sumado a ti
Ddim
A
Adim
Cm
Me ha hecho conocer
Adim
F
Aaug
A
Cuanto me asomaba en amor
F#m
Bm
E
A
Em
Y cuidada, oh Mija, tuve
A
F#m
F#dim
B
F partis de veras nunca había notado
Em
C
C#dim
Hasta que me diste las para ver
C
Em
E
wonderful an d strange
A
to recognize the change
Aaug
A
Edim
in me.
Aaug
D
G
F#m
Em
I may hurry back to that same little house
D
F#m
Bm
E
on that same little windswept shore,
G
Em
G
But I'll never go back
A
F#
B
to the woman I was before.
Em
No, I'll never go back
G
Em
A
C#dim
Gdim
To the woman I was be
C#dim
A
D
F
Bbm
fore.
Dm
Bb
Cm
C
F
Bbm
Aaug
Dm
Long ago, my father said to me, son,
Bbm
sorrow and joy are gone,
Gdim
C
and now I know
F
Bbm
The lute and bass,
Aaug
Dm
the loveliest of mu sic,
Bbm
Gdim
is hollowed out at night s,
and so are human minds
Bbm
F
The well of happiness that
Bbm
you possess,
F
C
Cm
C
F
You'll learn is watered with your tears.
Bbm
The deeper sorrow carves
Ab
Fm
into your heart,
Gdim
Fm
The more of joy it can contain,
Bbm
And from the dry and barren
Ab
desert land
Fm
Gdim
F
There grows a fig tree in the rain
Gdim
Bbm
Gdim
F
All life is beauty or the pain!
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