It Might Have Been by Vern Gosdin
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse
C                                                                G
Sometimes at night when everyone is sleepin’
        C                                           G7
For me it seems sleep just won’t come
C
My mind goes back and I get that same sweet
F
feelin’
C                                  G7             C
When I had you and love was young
Chorus
    C                             F
The saddest words from lip or pen
C                  C                                       G7
Are the words … “Oh, it might have been”
           C
If my dreams could only be
    F
If you were here with me
                           C           F        C
But they’re like mist in the wind
                            F              C
And saddest words from lips or pen
      G            C
”It might have been
Verse
             C                                                       F
When mornin’ comes and night is soon forgotten
            C                                      G7
As the cares of the day takes control
         C                                                        G
And I’m busy with the new life that I’m livin’
            C                  G7                       C
Never letting your memory take a hold
C F Am
[Refrain]
A                                                               G
Then I heard an old song we used to sing
           D                          A
And it started all over again
          D                                         G
Your memory keeps comin’ to haunt me
                         D              A                  D
I heard those words “It might have been”
Chorus
        A                         G                  D
The saddest words from lips or pen
D                                                            A
Are the words … “Oh, it might have been”
D
If my dreams could only be
F
If you were here with me
                      D           G     D
They’re like mist in the wind
                         G                 D
And saddest words from lips or pen
             A           C
”It might have been”
A               D
Mmmm… Mmmm… Mmmm