What We Used To Have
Michael Kraker
mkraker@bellsouth.com 662-312-8666


V-1 I was just fifteen, running wild D M
half man, half child D M
(I) knew it all ,invisible bulletproof A M

Couldn't wait, 'til I got grown D M
Got out, got gone D M
thinking back, I really had it pretty good A M

C - Sometimes all we want, is what we used to have D M
Get a few miles down the road, what we had don't seem so bad A D
thinking those days were, the best we ever had G D
Sometimes all we want, is what we used to have. A M D

V-2 Married her late one Spring D M
pay by the week, pawn shop ring D M
had all we wanted, (and) all we had was a dream A M

Five years in, we'd made a start D M
A broken vow, a broken heart D M
she's gone, and now that other grass ain't so green A M

C

Bridge
1 Don't be looking past today, and telling yourself a lie G D

2 you may be looking back, and asking why A D

3 sometimes the best place to be, is right there where you are G D

4 and all the things you really want, are really not so far A M

Repeat C