A
Let's start it here
                 E       A
Back in nineteen-seventy-sumthin'
            Bm         F#m
I can't pin down the year
                 C#m    D
When the romance wasn't dead
               E         A
And love still stood for something
                         E         A
There was a girl who had lost  her way
                       Bm     F#m
She blushed red when he came over
                     C#m    D
And they danced the night away
                  E         A
And he sung as he drove her home and
                  E           A
It was there that she would say
                Bm      F#m
If I could than I would save you
                   C#m     D
And he smiled and turned away
                             B
In six weeks they're saying "I do"
D                   D **                 A
Oh, Love just don't go that way no more


[Chorus]
             F#m              C#m
And like the seed becomes the tree
            E             A
We'll take shape of a family
   F#m               C#m
We grow and we change
              E                         A
And face the rain like you wouldn't believe
               F#m
And through it all
               C#m
We're standing tall
         E                  A
And I just don't say it enough
    F#m    C#m
If not for you,
        E                       A
No, we wouldn't be standing at all

A  E  A

[Verse 2]
                        E    A
And now it's nineteen-ninety-sumthin'
                    Bm       F#m
How the hell did we end up here?
                 C#m        D
Four kids and a few jobs later
                  E          A
And the pictures fill the pages
                    E          A
It's been hard, oh it's been hard
                            Bm    F#m
But you'd be a fool to give it up
                      C#m       D                       E        A
'Cause you know that what we've got is bigger than the two of us
                        E      A
It's been hard, oh it's been hard
                         Bm       F#m
But it's bigger than the two of us
                       C#m  D
And I will hold you in my arms
                     E       B   D
When you feel like giving up
                D **                 A
Love just don't go that way no more


[Chorus]

             F#m              C#m
And like the seed becomes the tree
            E             A
We'll take shape of a family
   F#m               C#m
We grow and we change
              E                         A
And face the rain like you wouldn't believe
               F#m
And through it all
               C#m
We're standing tall
         E                  A
And I just don't say it enough
    F#m    C#m
If not for you,
        E                       A
No, we wouldn't be standing at all


[Verse 3]
                     E         A
And now its two-thousand-and-sumthin'
            Bm      F#m
We made it here my dear
                   C#m      D
Grandkids and the mortgage paid off
               E        A
Is this what dreams are made of?
                E      A
'Cause baby we made it
               Bm     F#m
Yeah baby you saved me
                   C#m   D
But nothing could save him
                        Bm *
From the ambulance that day
         E *      F#m *
When he went away
               E *     D *
The heart attack was sharp
           E *    F#m *
He didn't feel no pain
        A *       E *        D *
If you saw him now then what
      E *      F#m *
What would you say?
            E *   D *
I love you and I miss you
   E *          F#m *
I owe you everything
       A **     E **      B **            D **
And I hope you know you saved me (saved me!)

A

[Verse 4]
         E   A
Oh mother
         Bm         F#m
Mother please don't cry
                  C#m      D
'Cause you know I miss him too
                 E      A
I didn't even say goodbye
                        E   A
And though he's gone, I know he's gone
                 Bm   F#m
He lives on in all of us
                    C#m       D
And I will hold you when you cry
        D **                        A   E   A
'Cause that's what he would have done
                  Bm             F#m   C#m  D
Yeah, that's what he would have done
                   E             A
Yeah, that's what he would have done
                    E         A
It's been hard, oh it's been hard
                    Bm    F#m
But he's a part of all of us
                     C#m       D
And I will hold you when you cry
                      E    A **
'Cause that's what family does