John Anderson - I Wish I Could Have Been There guitar chord

I Wish I Could have Been There - John Anderson

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When our baby Kate was born it was the biggest

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day of my life

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Lying there little bows in her hair in the loving

arms of my wife

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I was the proudest papa in the U.S.A.

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Making a living on the road somewhere a thousand

miles away

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It was a happy day, but kinda sad. I wish I coulda

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been there

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I wish I coulda been there, I wish I coulda been

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there for that

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Little Bobby hit his first home run he was the hero

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of the hometown crowd

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two to one it was the winning run everybody

was cheering loud

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And mama she would smile and say that he's a chip

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off of the old block

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But I was on the road somewhere between Memphis

and Little Rock

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It was a happy day, but kinda sad. I wish I coulda

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been there

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I wish I coulda been there, I wish I coulda been

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there for that

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Now Bobby and Kate are all grown up and moved

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away

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They stay in touch, we're proud of the two good

kids we raised

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and it's hard to believe we're celebrating our

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25th year today

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This party's nice, but the kids aren't here, at

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least they called to say

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Congradulations Mom and Dad . I wish we coulda

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been there

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I wish we coulda been there, I wish we coulda been

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there for that

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It was a happy day, but kinda sad. I wish they

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coulda been there

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I wish they coulda been there, I wish they coulda

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been there for that.....