Chords for The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened (Official Video)

You are [B] the best thing that ever [E] has happened to me
_ You are
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_ [B] Okay, then one [Eb] of the best [B] things that's happened to me [Db] you are _ _
The best thing that ever happened to me actually [Gb] was written twice
[Ebm] Once it was sung between a man and a woman at another time
It was sung in another show by [Bb] Stephen Sondheim, [Db] but between two [Eb] men so it's had quite a journey
[G] But it's a charming song and we have Alec Baldwin
An actor who I've always really admired and he was [F] a perfect [Dm] casting.
[G] It's that combination with me.
He's a New Yorker
He's from the theater.
[A] I've met Barbara Streisand a couple [Am] times and as everybody knows, you know
She's the greatest [F] of the greatest and [C] so when they first [G] asked me I thought oh god, this must [C] be some mistake
[G] But here [Db] I am
You might just be the [Bbm] best thing that has [Gb] happened to me well so far
[Fm] Of _ course not much very good ever [Bbm] happened to me
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Stephen Sondheim is Broadway's greatest living _ [C]
lyricist just in the way that Barbara is [Db] complex in her singing
[G] Sondheim is perhaps the most complex in his [E] writing
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_ [D] _ Sondheim was the person who invited [D] audiences to come to the theater and let's talk about what [G] you're really going through and we're gonna sing
It _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Gbm] _
_ _ _ _ [B] was so much [Bm] fun working with Alec he's a real [D] charm
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_ _ _ [D] _ Oh
_ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ Dreams
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