Ben Rector – Beautiful chords

Capo: 1st Fret


Intro: C  G  Am  F x2

          C                   GThere are days when I wake up
                      Am         FI don't know what I'm doing here
         C             G                    Am                FI barely recognize the pair of eyes staring back at me in the mirror

                C But there was a day when I was free
      GNot a care that I could see
                Am                    FSo good I could barely believe it was happening
           F         Oh take me back again

              C                 GWhen I was sixteen with an open heart
        Am                FWindows down in a beat up car
           C                      GWhen I was dumb and the world was young
            Am         FAnd she was beautiful
        C          GShe was beautiful
        Am         FShe was beautiful

          C                GHow do we end up like this
                           Am          FLiving lives that we don't care about
         C                   G                       Am                Too busy fixing things on computer screens while the grass grows green me
    FI'm screaming out

            C   There was a day that I was free
      GNot a care that I could see
                Am                    FSo good I could barely believe it was happening
           FOh take me back again

            C                 GOh I was sixteen with an open heart
        Am                FWindows down in a beat up car
           C                      GWhen I was dumb and the world was young
            Am         FAnd she was beautiful
        C          GShe was beautiful
        Am         FShe was beautiful
        C          GShe was beautiful
        Am        FShe was beautiful  yeah yeah yeah


Interlude: C  G  Am  F

                C But there was a day when I was free
      GNot a care that I could see
                Am                    FSo good I could barely believe it was happening
           F         Oh take me back again

              C                 GWhen I was sixteen with an open heart
        Am                FWindows down in a beat up car
           C                      GWhen I was dumb and the world was young
                  Am    FAnd the world was young
        C          GShe was beautiful
        Am         FShe was beautiful
       CIt was you
       GIt was you
             Am       FAnd you were beautiful yeah

                 
              C                 GWhen I was sixteen with an open heart
        Am                FWindows down in a beat up car
           C                      GWhen I was dumb and the world was young
            Am          F       And she was beautiful

End on C