Chords for Meryl Streep - Slipping Through My Fingers (Slowed)

_ _ School bag [Fm] in hand, she [C] leaves home in the early [Em] _ [F] morning
_ Waving goodbye with an [C] absent-minded [Em] _
smile
_ _ _ _ _ [F] I watch [Fm] her go _ [C] with a surge of that well-known [F] sadness
And I have [G] to sit down [C] for a _ _ while
_ _ [F] The feeling that [G] I'm losing her [C] _
forever
_ [E] _ _ _ [F] And without [G] really entering her [C] world
_ _ _ _ _ [F] I'm glad whenever [G] I can share [C] her laughter
_ [G] That funny little [C] _ _
girl
_ _ Slipping through [F] my fingers all [C] the time
I try [Em] to capture every [Dm] _ minute _ _
[F] The feeling [C] in it
[G] Slipping through my fingers all [C] the time
Do I [F] really see what's in [C] her mind?
Each time [Em] I think I'm close [Dm] to knowing
_ _ She [C] keeps on going
[G] Slipping through my fingers all the [C] _ time _ _
Sleep [F] _ _ in [Fm] our eyes
[C] Her and me at the breakfast _ [F] table
_ _ [Fm] Barely awake
I [C] let precious time [Em] go _ _ by
_ _ _ [F] Then when [Fm] she's gone
Is [C] that old _ _ melancholy [F] feeling
And the sense [G] of guilt I [C] can't _ deny
_ _ _ [F] What happened to [G] those _ wonderful [C] _
adventures?
_ [E] _ _ _ [F] The places I [G] had planned for us to [C] _
go
_ _ _ _ [F] Well, some of that [G] we did
But [C] most we didn't
[G] And while we were [C] just old
_ _ _ _ Slipping [F] through my fingers all [C] the time
I try [Em] to capture _ [Dm] every minute _ _
The [C] feeling in it
Slipping [G] through my fingers all [C] the time
Do I [F] really see what's [C] in her mind?
Each time [Em] I think I'm close [Dm] to knowing _ _
She keeps [C] on going
Slipping [G] through my fingers [C] all the time
_ [F] Sometimes I wish [G] that I could [C] freeze the picture
_ [E] _ _ _ [F] And save it [G] from the funny tricks [C] of time
Slipping [F] through my _ [G] _ _ [C] fingers
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ [C] School _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ bag [C] in hand
She leaves home in the early [F] morning
_ Waving [Fm]
goodbye _ [C] with an _ absent-minded smile
[B] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _