The Dance

Garth Brooks

• GCDGDGCDC/ED/F♯
  S1:
  Looking back  

  On the memory of 

  The dance we shared  

  'Neath the stars above  

  For a moment  

  All the world was right 

  How could I have known  

  That you'd ever say goodbye
• CDHmiCDCDHmiCDGD7/CD7/C
  R1:
  And now  

  I'm glad I didn't know 

  The way it all would end  

  The way it all would go--o 

  Our lives are better left to chance  

  I could have missed the pain 

  But I'd have had to miss the dance
• GCDGDGCDC/ED/F♯
  S2:
  Holding you  

  I held everything 

  For a moment  

  Wasn't I a king  

  But if I'd only known  

  How the king would fall 

  Hey who's to say  

  You know I might have changed it all
• CDHmiCDCDHmiCDGD7/CD7/C
  R1:
  And now  

  I'm glad I didn't know 

  The way it all would end  

  The way it all would go--o 

  Our lives are better left to chance  

  I could have missed the pain 

  But I'd have had to miss the dance
• CDHmiCDEmiD7/C
  R2:
  Yes my life  

  Is better left to chance 

  I could have missed the pain  

  But I'd have had to miss the dance