Shawn Colvin - If I Were Brave Ukulele

IF I WERE BRAVE
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs

D = XX3211
G/B = XX2010
A7/C# = XX453X
G = XX0003 <-- intro only / XX5433
D7sus/A = XX0011
D = X32010

INTRO: D, G/B, D, G/B, D, A7/C#, D


D             G/B              D7sus/A        D
All the happy couples on their way to New Or-leans

     D               D         G/B  D
Re-minding me of when we got a-long

        D               G/B           D7sus/A            D
They're only renting time and space to fill up with their dreams

    D                           D                   G/B  D
And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone



             D            G/B                D7sus/A     D 
How could it be that I was born without a clue to carry on

    D                  D               G/B D
And still it is the same now I am older

                     G/B             D7sus/A           D
Armed with just a will and then this love for singing songs

    D                   D         G/B    D
And minding less and less if I am colder



      D               G/B           D             G/B
But I have this funny ache and it's burning in my chest

       D                   D              G/B  D
And it spreads just like a fire inside my body

      D                  G/B       D            G/B 
Is it something God left out in my spirit or my flesh

           D               D               G/B    D
Would I be saved if I were brave and had a baby?



             D                     G/B
It was never clear what would come next

               D7sus/A             D 
but that's the risk and that's the test

      D                 D           G/B    D
And you were the only one so far to follow

                   G/B                D7sus/A          D
And no one talks about when one might stop and need to rest

       D             D               D  
Or how long you sit alone before you 

             D7sus/A              D               D
stop looking back It's like you're waiting for Godot 

             D               D              D
And then you pick your sorry ass up off the street and 

G/B   D  G/B  D  G/B  D  
Go...


    D                G/B       D                G/B
And what the hell is this? Who made this bloody mess?

    D              D              G/B     D
And someone always answers like a martyr

      D                    G/B           D             G/B
Is it something you should know, did you never do your best

             D                 D               G/B         D
Would you be saved if you were brave and just tried harder


   D              G/B              D7sus/A        D
So now I ride the aught-one-thirty-five to New Orleans

  D             D                       G/B   D
I float a mile above life's toil and trouble

                  G/B                 D7sus/A        D
A thousand lonely lifetimes I still wait and then go on

  D             D              G/B     D  G/B  D  G/B  D  D
A clown to entertain the happy couples