Benatar Pat - Shooting Star guitar chord

#

#

Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 17:33:01 EDT

From: slehman@MIT.EDU (Scott A. Lehman)

SHOOTING STAR - Harry Chapin

covered by Pat Benatar

from the "Harry Chapin Tribute" album

       Am

he was crazy, of course

         G                   F

from the first she must have known it

        G

but she ***** went on with him        

    G              Am

and never once had shown it

    Am

she took him off the streets

        G                  F

and she dried his tears of grieving

      G

***************************

      G             Am

she believed in his believing

      C                      Am                 G

   oh he was the sun burning bright and brittle and

               G                             Am

   she was the moon shining back his light a little

            F              G

   he was a shooting star, she was softer and more slowly

      Am

   he could not make things possible

       F                            Am

   but she could make them holy - holy

         Am                          G

well she gave him a daughter and she gave him a son

          G                        F

she was a mother and a wife, and a lover when the day was done

            Am

when he was too far gone for giving love

        G

what he offered her instead

        Am

was the knowledge she was the only thing

     F              Am

that was not in his head