James Otto - The Ball guitar chord
James Otto - The Ball
By axehappy - axehappy@
Play this with a capo on 1st fret.
All chord names and shapes are relative to position of capo.
Real chord names are in square brackets below.
F (F#) = 133211 C/E (Db/F) = 032010
Dm (Ebm) = xx0231 Bb (B) = x13331
F/A (F#/Bb) = x03211 Gm (Abm) = 355333
C (Db) = x32010
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F C/E
If I hadn't dropped the ball, I would have took it all the way,
Dm Bb
Homecoming' '89 with ten seconds left to play.
F C/E
We were drivin' toward the goal line, they were screamin' in the stands,
Dm Bb
I had the chance to be a hero, but it slipped right through my hands.
C/E
There would have been a big pep rally,
Dm C/E Bb F/A
They would have hung my jersey on the wall....
Gm C F
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
F C/E
Well me and Cyndi Miller were supposed to meet after the game,
Dm Bb
I waited by the bleachers, but she never came.
F C/E
I found a note on my windshield underneath the wiper blade,
Dm Bb
With 'Goodbye' bleeding through it in the cold October rain.
C/E
We probably would have gotten married,
Dm C/E Bb F/A
And those recruiters in from Bama would have called....
Gm C F
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
Bb
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
F F/A
Things had gone the way I planned.
Bb Dm
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
Gm C
Is something that I'll never understand.
F C/E
I ran away that Summer, took a job out on the coast.
Dm Bb
And that's where I met your momma, and the rest I guess you know.
F C/E
If I had the chance to go back and score that last touchdown,
Dm Bb
Well son, I wouldn't do it, 'cause you wouldn't be here now.
C/E
And I wouldn't be your hero,
Dm C/E F F/A
I wouldn't be around to catch you when you fall....
Gm C F
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
Bb
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
F F/A
Things had gone the way I planned.
Bb Dm
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
Gm C
Is the one that God intended me to have.
Bb F/A Gm
No I wouldn't the man I am at all,
C F
If I hadn't dropped the ball.
