Bedtime Chords & Lyrics - Gordon Downie

[C] x32010 [G] 320033
[Dm7] xx0211 [Am7] x02213

[PART 1]

[F] I held you
[Cm7/E] I rocked you to sleep
[C] It'd take a long ti[Dm7]me but eventually you'd go

[F] And I'd try to get out
[Cm7/E] Of the rocking chair
[C] With you in my arm[Dm7]s

[F] I'd get you to your crib
[Cm7/E] Slowly lower you down
[C] Then pull my hands away[Dm7] , as if from a bomb

[PART 2]

[Fadd9] Then I'd step away
[C] One step at a time
[G] The floors were full of s[Am7]ounds, all the creaks for time

[Fadd9] Then I'd get to the door
[C] Open it carefully
[G] Tryin' back out of the r[Am]oom so quietly

[Cm7/E] [C] [Dm7]

[F] When I got to the door
[Cm7/E] Closed to within an inch
[C] That's when you'd come awake
[Dm7] As if you'd been watch[Fadd9]in' me

Watching me the whole time
[C] As if you waited to see
[G] If I truly int[Am7]ended, just to let you be

[Fadd9] Just to leave
[C] Just to leave you alone
[G] Just to leave you alo[F]ne

[PART 3]

[F] How you would cry
[F] And I'd come back
[F] Yeah, I'd come ba[C]ck
And lift you u[F]p
Sit back do[C]wn with you
Try to start all [F]over again
Start slowl[C]y rocking again
Start all o[F]ver again, ah-[C]ha
We'd start all o[F]ver again

I'd come b[F]ack
Lift you u[F]p
Start all o[F]ver again