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Misc: Other : David Gates

  1. Everything I Own
  2. The Guitar Man
  3. If
  4. It Don't Matter To Me
  5. Make It With You
  6. Sweet Surrender

Everything I Own

A
A
Asus4
A
Asus2
A
2x
A
E
You sheltered me from harm
D
Dm
A
E
Kept me warm, kept me warm
A
E
You gave my life to me
D
Dm
A
E
Set me free, set me free
Bm
D
E
The finest years I ever knew
Bm
D
E
Were all the years I had with you
D
A
Bm
E
And I would give anything I own
D
A
Bm
E
Give up my life, my heart, my home
D
A
Bm
E
I would give everything I own
D
A
Just to have you back again
A
A
Asus4
A
Asus2
A
2x
A
E
You taught me how to love
D
Dm
A
E
What it's of, what it's of
A
E
You never said too much
F#m
A
But still, you showed the way
G
D
A
And I knew, I'm watching you
Bm
D
E
Nobody else could ever know
Bm
D
E
The part of me that can't let go And I would give anything I own Give up my life, my heart, my home I would give everything I own Just to have you back again
F#m
Is there someone you know
A
You're loving them so
Dmaj7
But taking them all for granted?
Bm
You may lose them one day
D
Someone takes them away
G
E
And they don't hear the words you long to say And I would give anything I own Give up my life, my heart, my home I would give everything I own Just to have you back again Just to touch you once again

The Guitar Man

G
C
D
Dsus4
D
Dsus2
D
x2
G
C
D
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud? Baby, it's the guitar man
G
C
D
Who's going to steal the show? You know baby it's the guitar man
Em
C
He can make you love, he can make you cry
Em
A
He will bring you down and he'll get you high
Cmaj7
Bm7
Something keeps him going miles and miles a day
Am7
D
To find another place to play
G
C
D
Night after night who treats you right? Baby it's the guitar man
G
C
D
Who's on the radio you go to listen to the guitar man
Em
C
When he comes to town and you see his face
Em
A
And you think you might like to take his place
Cmaj7
Bm7
Something keeps him drifting miles and miles away
Am7
D
Searching for the songs to play
Am
Am(maj7)
Am7
D
Then you listen to the music and you like to sing along
G
D/f#
Em
You want to get the meaning out of each and every song
Am
Am(maj7)
And you find yourself a message and some
Am7
D
Dsus4
D
E
C
Words to call your own and take them home
Guitar Solo over intro chords
Em
C
He can make you love, he can get you high
Em
A
He will bring you down and he may make you cry
Cmaj7
Bm7
Something keeps him moving, but no one seems to know
Am7
D
What it is that makes him go
Am
Am(maj7)
Am7
D
Dsus4
D
Then the lights begin to flicker and the sound is getting dim
G
D/f#
Em
The voice begins to falter and the crowds are getting thin
Am
Am(maj7)
Am7
But he never seems to notice he's just got to find
D
Dsus4
D
E
C
E
C
E
Another place to play... Fade away... got to play...
C
E
C
E
C
E
Fade away... Got to play... Fade away

If

A 002220 Dm6 000201 C#m+ 002225
C#m 002120 E7 020100 D6 000202
A7 002020 F#m 042222 F#7 004320
Dadd9 004230 C#+ 003224 Bm(i) 004432
Am(add9) 003230
A
C#m
If a picture paints a thousand words
A7
Dadd9
Then why can't I paint you?
Dm(add9)
A
The words will never show
Dm6
E7
The you I've come to know If a face could launch a thousand ships Then where am I to go? There's no one home but you You're all that's left me too
F#m
C#+
C#m+
D6
And when my love for life is running dry
C#m
F#7
Bm(i)
E7
You come and pour yourself on me If a man could be two places At one time I'd be with you Tomorrow and today Beside you all the way If the world should stop revolving Spinning slowly down to die I'd spend the end with you And when the world was through
F#m
C#+
C#m+
D6
Then one by one the stars would all go out
C#m
F#7
Bm(i)
E7
A
Then you and I would simply fly away

It Don't Matter To Me

D
It don't matter to me
A/c#
If you really feel that
C
You need sometime to be free
Gm7
D
Time to go out searching for yourself
A
G
D
A7
A
Hoping to find time to go to find
D
And it don't matter to me
A/c#
C
If you take up with someone who's better than me
Gm7
D
'cause your happiness is all I want
A
G
D
F
For you to find peace, your peace of mind
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Lotta people have an ego hang-up
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
'Cause they want to be the only one
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
How many came before it really doesn't matter
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Just as long as you're the last
Dmaj7
Gmaj7
Everybody's moving on and try to find out
Dmaj7
Gmaj7
What's been missing in the past
D
And it don't matter to me
A/c#
If your searching brings you
C
Back together with me
Gm7
'Cause there'll always be
D
A
G
An empty room waiting for you
D
A
G
An open heart waiting for you
D
F
A
Time is on my side
D
A/c#
'Cause it don't matter to me
C
Gm7
It don't matter to me
D
A/c#
It don't matter to me
C
Gm7
It don't matter to me
D
A/c#
It don't matter to me
C
Gm7
It don't matter to me
Gm7
'Cause there'll always be
D
A
G
An empty room waiting for you
D
A
G
An open heart waiting for you
D
F
A
Time is on my side
D
It don't matter to me

Make It With You

E
F#m
x2
E
F#m
Hey, have you ever tried?
E
F#m
A
Really reaching out for the other side?
F#m
G#m
I may be climbing on rainbows
F#m
B7
E
F#m
But baby here goes
E
F#m
Dreams they re for those who sleep
E
F#m
A
Life is for us to keep
F#m
And if you're wondering
G#m
A
B7
What this song is leading to
A
E
I want to make it with you
F#m
A
I really think
E
G#m
A
A
E
F#m
That we could make it girl
E
F#m
No, you don't know me well
E
F#m
A
In every little thing only time will tell
F#m
G#m
If you believe the things that I do
F#m
A
And we'll see it through
E
F#m
E
F#m
Life can be short or long
E
F#m
A
Love can be right or wrong
F#m
And if I chose the one
G#m
A
F#m
I'd like to help me through
A
E
I'd like to make it with you
F#m
A
I really think
E
G#m
A
A
E
F#m
That we could make it girl
E
F#m
E
F#m
A
E
A
E
Baby you know that dreams
F#m
They're for those who sleep
E
F#m
A
Life, it's for us to keep
F#m
And if I chose the one
G#m
A
F#m
I'd like to help me through
A
E
I'd like to make it with you
F#m
A
I really think
E
G#m
A
That we could make it girl

Sweet Surrender

A
Bm7/a
x4
A
Bm7/a
A
Bm7/a
Baby I'm through, runnin' it's true
A
Bm7/a
A
A7
I'd be a fool to try to escape you
D
E
D
E
A
Bm7/a
A
Bm7/a
Maybe I'm beat, but oh what a sweet surrender
A
Bm7/a
A
Bm7/a
You keep your rights, I'll take your nights
A
Bm7/a
A
A7
No one can lose when we turn the lights out
D
E
D
E
F#m
E
Tastin' defeat, lovin' that sweet surrender
D
E
A
A7
D
E
F#m
E
I'm givin' up myself to you but I didn't really lose at all
D
E
A
A7
D
E
D
E
I gave the only love I've known and it never hurt me to fall
A
Bm7/a
A
Bm7/a
Now that it's done, so glad you won
A
Bm7/a
A
A7
I know our lives have only begun now
D
E
A
E
F#m
D
No more retreat, only my sweet surrender
A
Bm7/a
x3
A
A7
D
E
D
E
F#m
D
F#m
I may be beat, but oh what a sweet surrender
B7
Surrender
D
E
A new sweet thing in my life
A
Bm7/a
A
Bm7/a
A
Dm
Dm(v)
A(v)
I surrender to you