Burr Gary - What Mattered Most guitar tab

Date: 1-20-01 1:22pm

From: zencool@home.com

Subject: "What Mattered Most" by Gary Burr

What Mattered Most

Performed by Gary Burr

Written by Gary Burr and Vince Melamed

From the Gary Burr CD "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"

(I saw Gary Burr do this at the Bluebird, in Nashville. He

sings it much slower and with more of a "bluesy" feel than

the hit version. After the performance, there wasn't a dry

eye in the house.)

D D/F# G A, D D/F# G A

D D/F#

I thought I knew, the girl so well

G D

If she was sad, I couldn't tell

D/F#

I missed the point, I missed the signs

G D

So if she's gone, the fault is mine

Em D

I know, I know, a whole lot of little things

Em D

And even though, I could list them one by one

A7sus A7

She would still be gone

Chorus

D D/F#

Her eyes are blue her hair is long

G D/A

In '64 she was born

A D

in Baton Rouge

D/F# G

Her favorite song is "In My Life"

D/A Bm

I memorized her every move

A G

I knew her books, her car, her clothes

D D/F# G A D

But I paid, no attention to what mattered most

Verse 2

I never asked, she never said

And when she cried I turned my head

She dreamed her dreams, behind closed doors

That made them easy to ignore

I know, I know, I missed the forest for the trees

Now all I have to show

When she walked out the door

Are cold facts and nothin' more

Chorus

Last Chorus:

Her eyes are blue, her hair is long, In '64

She was born, in Baton Rouge,

Her father's tall, her mother's gone,

She moved out West when she was two,

The way she laughed, the way she loved,

Oh my God what did I do?