Tim Mcgraw - You Had To Be There Chords

You Had To Be There
Written by Casey Beathard & Kenneth Wright
Recorded by Tim McGraw

Intro.:  | (D)  | (Bm)  | (A)  | (Bm) / / (A) |

(D)He sat down, picked up the phone and said, (Bm)"Boy, I'm your old man"
He (A/C#)touched the glass between the two, as (Bm)if to shake his hand (A)
The (D)boy, he didn't budge, not even (Bm)so much as a blink
The (A/C#)man said, "Oh, come on, better late than (Bm)never, don't ya think" (A)

He said, "I (D)read it in the paper, can't be-(Bm)lieve you're 21
I can't be-(A/C#)lieve some son of mine could do the (Bm)things I hear you've done" (A)
He went (D)on like some big hero, "Who flew (Bm)in to save the day"
And the (A/C#)boy said, "If you're here to steer me (Bm)right, man, its too late" (A)

(Chorus)
You had to (D)be there, and I'm (A/C#)talkin' from day one
That's the (Bm)only time a (A)man should talk through (G)glass to his new (A)son
And you'd have to (D)go back, and teach me (A/C#)how when I was nine
'Cause my (Bm)mama couldn't (A)throw a ball even (G)if she had the (A)time
I should have been (Em)learnin' how to fish, instead of (F#m)learnin' how to smoke
I bet if (G)you'd of whoopped my tail, I'd never thought (F#m) it was a joke
He said some-(Em)times the will for doin' wrong is (F#m)way too strong for any ma-(A)ma's prayers
You had to (D)be there (G/B)

The (D)man said, "Boy I'm sorry that you (Bm)hate me like you do"
The (A/C#)boy said, "Dry it up, man, we ain't (Bm)makin' this about you (A)
It's about a (D)teenage girl against the world, who was (Bm)left there high and dry
About a (A/C#)kid who might have stood a whole lot (Bm)better shot at life" (A)

(Chorus)
But you had to (D)be there, and I'm (A/C#)talkin' from day one
That's the (Bm)only time a (A)man should talk through (G)glass to his new (A)son
And you'd have to (D)go back, and teach me (A/C#)how when I was nine
'Cause my (Bm)mama couldn't (A)throw a ball even (G)if she had the (A)time
I should have been (Em)learnin' how to fish, instead of (F#m)learnin' how to smoke
I bet if (G)you'd of whoopped my tail, I'd never thought (F#m) it was a joke
He said some-(Em)times the will for doin' wrong is (F#m)way too strong for any ma-(A)ma's prayers
You had to (D)be there (G/B)

Be-(D)fore the boy hung up the phone, he said, (Bm)"They say me I'm out of time"
And it (A/C#)hit the man, right there and then, "My (Bm)god, son, so am I" --- (D) ---