Missed My Chance Griffin House Tuning Standard Capo 1st fret C | --3---------- | D | --2---------- | G | --3-------- | | --3---------- | | --3---------- | | --3-------- | | --0---------- | | --2---------- | | --0-------- | | --2---------- | | --0---------- | | --0-------- | | --3---------- | | --0---------- | | --2-------- | | --x---------- | | --2---------- | | --3-------- | Strumming Pattern: Intro & Verse (All Downstrokes) G5 C5 | --3-------3-----------3-----3-------3-------3--------- | x2 for intro | --3-------3-----------3-----3-------3-------3--------- | | --0-------0-----------0-----0-------0-------0--------- | | --0-------0-----------0-----2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----- | | --2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----- | | --3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------------------------- | G5 C5 Passed through main street yesterday G5 C5 And, oh, this town just ain't the same G5 C5 Looked in the window and it was gone G5 C5 All those tables I'd written on D5 C5 We're vanished as if I had never been there D5 C5 Like the poets and prophets who can't find the words so they stare D5 C5 And all that made sense has somehow turned askew D5 D5 D5 C5 G5 C5 I missed my chance with you G5 C5 There were seconds then minutes then years that I could not breathe G5 C5 In the Pere Lachaise with the hammer the chisel and the stone G5 C5 Now I've bartered and begged for what I believed G5 C5 And I saw that the name engraved was my own D5 C5 Now there's nothing so peaceful as when I met you D5 C5 And there's nothing so lonely as when it was through D5 C5 And the words, "I'm not here anymore", echo into D5 D5 D5 C5 G5 C5 "I missed my chance with you" G5 C5 Had love play so many tricks on me G5 C5 I've always felt cheated that you'd make me leave G5 C5 Like taking my sight after letting me see G5 C5 But I found out love had something up it's sleeve D5 C5 Leave me scattered like leaves by winds that never blew D5 C5 When I captured the starts D5 C5 In the palm of my hand it was true D5 D5 D5 C5 G5 C5 I'd just give them back to you G5 C5 I was seventeen, but just for one year G5 C5 I always knew one day, I'd end up here G5 C5 And the sands have now fallen to the evening of my afternoon G5 C5 I'm was always so ready to stay and always leaving too soon D5 C5 And I don't want to think about it now, but I do D5 C5 And my spirit is restless D5 C5 'Cause I know it's true D5 D5 D5 C5 I missed my chance with you
