Mark Chesnutt - She Was (corrected ) guitar chord

She Was - Mark Chesnutt

Album: Mark Chesnutt

Writers: Coty/Melton

**Capo 1**

Intro: D D/F# G A

G A D

She started her new life ten dollars in debt

G A D

That’s all it took to get started back then

G D/F#

A trip to the courthouse across the state line

A

No one could stop her she’d made up her mind

G A

He was eighteen and she wasn’t

Chorus 1:

D D/F#

But she said she was and never thought twice

G A

Came back home as my daddy’s wife

D

She just shook her head

Bm G D/F# Em A

When her momma said are you sure he’s the one

D D/F# G A

She was

G A D

He took a job and farmed on the side

G A D

He made the ends meet but she kept them tied

G D/F#

Changes were coming to their little world

A

She said what would you like a boy or a girl

G A

And he said are you...

Chorus 2:

D D/F#

And she said she was and never thought twice

G A

About taking the next step and building their lives

D

Soon there were three

Bm G D/F# Em A

And she tried to be everything to us

D

And she was

G A

Those precious moments turned into years

D A/C# Bm7

In what seemed like a blink of an eye

G D/F#

I held her hand as I leaned down to ask her

Em A

Momma are you ready to say goodbye

Chorus 3:

D D/F#

She said she was but she thought twice

G A

Holding my hand as she let go of life

D

Daddy always said

Bm G D/F# Em A

A woman like her would be hard to give up

Bm7 G D/F#

And she was

Em A

If there ever was a picture of love

Bm7 G A D

She was

Chords:

A = x02220

A/C#= x42220

Bm = x24432(bar chord) or xx4432

Bm7 = x24232(bar chord) or 797777(bar chord)

D = xx0232

D/F#= 2x0232 (hold bottom string with thumb)

Em = 022000

G = 320003