Intro: D  G  D
 
D        G          D
If we were children I would bake you a mud pie
D       G           D
Warm and brown beneath the sun
D    G             D
Never learned to climb a tree but I would try
D      G           D
Just to show you what I'd done

   G       D  
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A         D
If I had you, babe, I had you
   G         D
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A       D
If I had you, babe

D      G           D
If I were old, my dearest, you would be older
But I would crawl upon your lap
Wrap a blanket ‘round our frail little shoulders
And I'd die happily like that

   G       D  
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A         D
If I had you, babe, I had you
   G         D
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A           D
If I had you, babe, if I had you
 
G  D  A  D | G  D  A

   G                  Em                 D          A
So lace your hands ‘round the small of my back and I will 
kiss you like a king
     G                   D
I will be your bride, I'll keep you warm at night
     A           D
I will sing, I will sing

G  D  G  D | G  D  A

D     G          D            
It was now and we were both in the same place
Didn't know how to say the words
With my heart ticking like a bomb in a birdcage
I left before someone got hurt

   G       D  
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A         D
If I had you, babe, I had you
   G         D
Oh what I wouldn't Do
       A           D
If I had you, babe, if I had you

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Intro: Am  F }x2 
 
           Am
Your fingertips across my skin 
                F/C
The palm trees swaying in the wind 
    Am F/C
Images 
             Am
You sang me Spanish lullabies 
              F/C
The sweetest sadness in your eyes 
        Am
Clever trick 
 
         G                       C
Well, I never want to see you unhappy 
  Dm                             G
I thought you'd want the same for me 
 
 C
 Goodbye, my almost lover 
 G
 Goodbye, my hopeless dream 
 Dm
 I'm trying not to think about you 
 F
 Can't you just let me be? 
 C
 So long, my luckless romance 
 G
 My back is turned on you 
 Dm
 Should've known you'd bring me heartache 
 F                    C
 Almost lovers always do 
 
 F/C          Am
  We walked along a crowded street 
             F/C
You took my hand and danced with me 
    Am F/C
Images 
              Am
And when you left, you kissed my lips 
                       F/C
You told me you would never, never forget 
          Am    F/C
These images, no 
 
           G                       C
Well, I'd never want to see you unhappy 
   Dm                            G
I thought you'd want the same for me 
 
 C
 Goodbye, my almost lover 
 G
 Goodbye, my hopeless dream 
 Dm
 I'm trying not to think about you 
 F
 Can't you just let me be? 
 C
 So long, my luckless romance 
 G
 My back is turned on you 
 Dm
 Should've known you'd bring me heartache 
 F                    C
 Almost lovers always do 
 
 G

 Am                   G
 I cannot go to the ocean 
                               Am
I cannot drive the streets at night 
                            F
I cannot wake up in the morning 
                   Em
Without you on my mind 
                                 G
Well so you're gone and I'm haunted 
                        F -
And I bet you are just fine 
 
Did I make it that 
   Dm
Easy to walk right in and out 
         G
Of my life? 
 
 C
 Goodbye, my almost lover 
 G
 Goodbye, my hopeless dream 
 Dm
 I'm trying not to think about you 
 F
 Can't you just let me be? 
 C
 So long, my luckless romance 
 G
 My back is turned on you 
 Dm
 Should've known you'd bring me heartache 
 F                    C
 Almost lovers always do

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