What Mattered Most

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[Verse 1]
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I thought I knew the girl so well
F                  C
If she was sad I couldn't tell

I missed the point, I missed the signs
F                             C
So if she's gone the fault is mine
   Dm                                  C
I know, I know a whole lot of little things
    Dm                                 C
And even though I confess them one by one
                  Gsus4 G
She would still be gone


[Chorus]
              C
Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
    F           G             C
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
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Her favorite song is "In My Life"
        G              Am
I memorized her every move
             C                   F
I knew her books, her car, her clothes
       C            F             G       F  C
But I paid no attention to what mattered most


[Verse 2]
          C
I never asked, she never said
F                           C
And when she cried I turned my head
C
She dreamed her dreams behind closed doors
F                       C
That made them easy to ignore
      Dm                                         C
And I know, I know I missed the forest for the trees
          Dm                                       C
And all I have to show oh when she walked out the door
                          Gsus4 G
The cold facts and nothing more


[Chorus]
              C
Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
    F           G             C
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
                             F
Her favorite song is "In My Life"
        G              Am
I memorized her every move
             C                   F
I knew her books, her car, her clothes
       C            F             G       F  C
But I paid no attention to what mattered most


[Chorus]
              C
Her eyes are blue, her hair is long
    F           G             C
In '64 she was born in Baton Rouge
                                 F
Her father's tall, her mother's gone
               G                C
She moved out west when she was two
             C                   F
The way she laughed, the way she loved
       G             C
Oh my God what did I do