Chord/Tab song: If I Were Brave

IF I WERE BRAVE
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

F XX3211
C/E XX2010
D7/F# XX453X
G XX0003 <-- intro only / XX5433
G7sus/D XX0011
C X32010

INTRO: F, C/E, F, C/E, F, D7/F#, G

[F]All the happy [C/E]couples on their [G7sus/D]way to New Or-l[C]eans

Re-mi[F]nding me of when[G] we got a-[C/E]long[F]

They're [F]only renting tim[C/E]e and space to[G7sus/D] fill up with their[C] dreams

And [F]dreams are what they'll have[G] when they have gone[C/E][F]


How could it [F]be that I was[C/E] born without a clu[G7sus/D]e to carry o[C]n

And [F]still it is the sam[G]e now I am older[C/E][F]

Armed with just a wil[C/E]l and then this [G7sus/D]love for singing s[C]ongs

And [F]minding less and les[G]s if I am [C/E]colder[F]


But I [F]have this funny [C/E]ache and it's [F]burning in my [C/E]chest

And it [F]spreads just like a [G]fire inside my [C/E]body[F]

Is it [F]something God left [C/E]out in my [F]spirit or my [C/E]flesh

Would I be [F]saved if I were [G]brave and had a [C/E]baby?[F]


It was never [F]clear what would come [C/E]next

but that's the [G7sus/D]risk and that's the [C]test

And yo[F]u were the only on[G]e so far to [C/E]follow[F]

And no one talks ab[C/E]out when one might [G7sus/D]stop and need to [C]rest

Or how [F]long you sit a[G]lone before you [F]

stop looking [G7sus/D]back It's like you're[F] waiting for God[G]ot

And then you [F]pick your sorry [G]ass up off the [C]street and

[C/E]Go...[F][C/E][F][C/E][F]

And [F]what the hell is [C/E]this? Who [F]made this bloody [C/E]mess?

And [F]someone always [G]answers like a [C/E]martyr[F]

Is it [F]something you should [C/E]know, did you [F]never do your [C/E]best

Would you be [F]saved if you were [G]brave and just t[C/E]ried harder[F]

So [F]now I ride the [C/E]aught-one-thirty-[G7sus/D]five to New Orl[C]eans

I [F]float a mile a[G]bove life's toil and tro[C/E]uble[F]

A thousand lonely [C/E]lifetimes I still wa[G7sus/D]it and then go [C]on

A [F]clown to enter[G]tain the happy [C/E]couples[F][C/E][F][C/E][F][C]