Chords for Regina Belle - If I Could (Video)

[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [C] _ [F] _ If [Bb] I could, _ [F] I'd protect you from the sadness [Fm] in your _ eyes.
[Abm] [G] Give you courage in a world [Eb] of compromise.
_ [Bb] [Eb] Yes [Bb] I would.
If I could.
_ [F] I would teach you all the things [Fm] I've never learned.
_ _ [G] And I'd help you cross the [Gm] bridges that I've built.
_ [Bb] Yes I would.
[F] _
[Gm] If I could.
_ [C] I would try to shield your [F] innocence from time.
[Dm] But the part of [Bb] life I gave [E] you isn't mine.
[D] I'd watch you [A] grow so [Dm] I could [A] let you [F] _ go.
[Bb] _
[F] _ [Bb] _ If I [F] could, I would help you make it through [Fm] the hungry years.
[G] But I know that I can [Eb] never cry your tears back.
But I [G] would.
[F]
[Bb] If I could.
_ _ [Dm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] In a time and place where you [Bb] don't [F] wait.
_ [Bb] You don't have to walk this [E] road with me.
[D] My yesterday [A] won't [Dm] have to [A] be here.
[F] _ [Eb] When _ _
[B] _ _ _ [Gb] you will try to change the [Gbm] world I brought you to.
_ [Gb] Now there isn't [Ab] much more that [E] I can do.
But I would.
[Gb] If [B] I could.
_ _ [Abm] _ [Eb] And _
[Abm] _ _ I [Db] would try to shield your [B] innocence [Gb] from time.
[B] But the part of life I gave you [F] isn't mine.
_ [Ebm] I'd watch you [Bb] grow so [Ebm] I could let [Bb] you go.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ If I could, [Gb] _ I'd help you make it through [Gbm] the hungry years.
[Ab] But I know that I can never [E] _ [Dbm] tease.
[B] But I would. _
If [Abm] I [B] could.
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