You Had To Be There chords by Tim McGraw
Intro 1
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Bm
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Verse 1
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He sat down, picked up the phone and said,
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"Boy, I'm your old man"
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He touched the glass between the two
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As if to shake his hand
Verse 2
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The boy, he didn't budge
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Not even so much as a blink
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The man said, "Oh, come on,
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better late than never, don't you think?"
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He said, "I
Verse 3
read it in the paper,
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can't believe you're twenty one
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Can't believe some son of mine
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Could do the things I hear
you've done"
Verse 4
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He went on like some big hero
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who flew in to save the day
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And the boy said, "If you're here to steer me right,
man, it's too late"
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You had to be
Verse 5
there and I'm
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talkin' from day one
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That's the only time a man should talk
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through glass to his new son
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And you'd have to go back and teach
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me how when I was nine
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'Cause my mama couldn't throw
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a ball even if she had the time
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And I should have been
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learnin' how to fish
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Instead of learnin' how to smoke
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I bet if you'd have whooped my tail,
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I'd never thought it was a joke
Verse 6
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He said, "Sometimes the will for
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doin' wrong is way too strong
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For any Mama's prayers
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You had to be there"
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The
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man said, "Boy,
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I'm sorry you hate me like you do"
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The boy said, "Dry it up, man,
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we ain't makin' this about you
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It's about a teenage girl against the world
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who was left there high and dry
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About a kid who might have stood a
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whole lot better shot at life"
Verse 8
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But you had to be there and I'm
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talkin' from day one
Bm
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That's the only time a man should
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talk through glass to his new son
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And you'd have to go back and teach
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me how when I was nine
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'Cause my mama couldn't throw
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a ball even if she had the time
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I should have been learnin'
how to fish
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Instead of learnin' how to smoke
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I bet if you'd have whooped my tail,
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I'd never thought it was a joke
Verse 9
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He said, "Sometimes the will for
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doing wrong is way too strong
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For any Mama's prayer
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You had to be there"
Verse 10
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Before the boy hung up the phone
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He said, "They say I'm out of time"
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And it hit the man right
there and then
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"My God, son, so am I"
You Had To Be There
Tim McGraw
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