Gift Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Jerry [G]Jeff Walker[C][D][Em][C][G][D]
[G]
In a boarding house, I'd lay up[Em]stairs,
And [D]dream of how I'd [Am]live
[D]someday
Downstairs there [Am]sat, a man who [D]had
A gui[C]tar he never [D]learned to [G]play

[Verse 2]
[C]For my thirteenth birthday,
[D]grandma bought the guitar
[Em]Told me I [D]should learn how [C]to play
And the [G]gift she gave me
changed me
'Cause the [D]music is the main thing,
That got [C]me to this [D]point
here [G]today
Chorus: And I was [C]lucky, 'cause I

[Verse 3]
[D]
used her [G]gift
To [C]get in touch with [D]how to live
[G]And [C]looking bac[D]k I now[Em] rea[C]lize,
[G]music [D]cha[Em]nged my [C]lif[G]e[D]

[Interlude 1]
[G][C][D][Em][C][G][D]
[G]

[Verse 4]
Just out [G]of school, I had no [Em]clue
Of [Am]what it was I'd like [D]to do
I only [Am]know, the open [D]road
Was [C]the way I chose to [D]pass on [G]through

[Verse 5]
I [C]took that guitar with me,
[D]down the lonesome highway
And [Em]I began my sea[D]rch
for [C]a song
[Gm]And somewhere [G]in the distance,
[D]the music and the mystery
Of [C]how I would [D]live come [G]along

[Verse 6]
Chorus [C](Last line [D]dif[G]ferent)
[C]That[D][G][C][D][Em][C]
[G]music [D]saved my [Em]life,
[C]mus[G]ic becam[D]e my life

[Interlude 2]
[G][C][D][Em][C][G][D]
[G]

[Verse 7]
As time went [G]by, I found [Em]that I
[Am]Could climb up on the stage and [D]sing
But when I [Am]sang, the songs I [D]wrote
It be[C]came a very spe[D]cial [G]thing

[Verse 8]
[C]But songs to me were personal
And the [D]business side just killed me
And [Em]I withdrew insid[D]e my she[C]ll
With the con[G]tracts and the lawsuits
[D]I started heavy drinking,
'Til [C]I finally lost t[D]ouch with myself
[G]

[Interlude 3]
[C][D][G][C][D]
[G][C][D][Em]
[C][G][D][G]
[Bm]Bridge: I guess playing

[Verse 9]
[Bm]
music for
[C]money brought problems
[G]That I didn't fac[D]e very wel[G]l
[Bm]Being self- taught gave me
[C]nothing to lean [Am]on
[A]I had to look in myself
[D][C][Bm]

[Verse 10]
[D]I t[C]ook[D] a year off[G]
and did some fast[Em]ing
[Am]Just to clean the cobwebs [D]out
And I went [Am]back to Grandma's [D]guitar
[C]Just to hear a sim[D]ple [G]sound

[Verse 11]
[C]When I look around me,
[D]I saw my loving family
And a [Em]home we had [D]built on a [C]hill
I dis[G]covered the music had [D]led
me to the one place
Where my [C]heart and [D]soul are re- [G]filled
[C][D]

[Interlude 4]
[G][C][D]
[G][C][D][Em][C]
[G]Chorus: Music saved

[Verse 12]
[D]
my [Em]life, [C]yeah,
[G]music really [D]saved my [G]life[C][D][Em][C]
Yes, [G]music really [D]saved my [G]life