What Mattered Most Chords by Ty Herndon

[C] [G] .
[F] [C] .
I thought I knew the girl so well .
[F] She was sad, [C] I couldn't tell.
I missed the point, I missed the signs .
[F] So if she's gone, the [C] fault is mine .
[Dm] I know, I know, a whole lot of [C] little things.
[Dm] And even though, I could bless them one [C] by one.
She would still be gone.
[G] Her [C] eyes were blue, her hair was long.
At [F] sixty-four, [C] she was [G] born in [C] Baton Rouge.
Her favorite song was [F] in my life.
I [Cm] memorized [G] her [Am] every move.
I [C] knew her books, her car, her [F] goals.
But [C] I paid no [F] attention [C] to what [G] [C] mattered most.
I never asked, she never said.
[F] And when she cried, [C] I turned my head.
She dreamed her dreams behind closed doors.
[F] That made them easy [C] to ignore.
And [Dm] I know, I know, I missed the forest [C] for the trees.
Now [Dm] all I have to show.
Oh, when she walked [C] out the door.
Her cold back's [G] nothing more.
Her [C] eyes were blue, her hair was [Em] long.
At [F] sixty-four, [C] she was [G] born in [C] Baton Rouge.
Her favorite song was [F] in my life.
I [C] memorized [G] her [Am] every move.
I [C] knew her books, her car, her [F] goals.
[C] But I paid no [F] attention [C] to what [G] [C] mattered most.
Her eyes were blue, her hair was long.
[F] At sixty-four, [C] she was [G] born in [C] Baton Rouge.
Her father's tall, [F] her mother's gone.
She [G] moved out west when [C] she was two.
The way she [Em] laughed, the [F] way she loved.
[Cm] Oh my [G] God, what [C] did I do?.
[F] [C] [G] [C] [F] [C] .
[G] [C] [F] [C] .
[G] [C] [F] [C] .