Standard tuning
Capo on Silver Bell version: 9
Capo on Impossible Dream version: 8
G: 320033
D: XX0232
Em: 022000
C: X32010
G D
I wished I was smarter, I wished I was stronger
Em C
I wished I'd loved Jesus the way my wife does
G D
I wished it'd been easier instead of any longer
Em C
I wished I could've stood where you would've been proud
G D
But that won't happen now, that won't happen now
C D
There's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard
Em C G
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
C D
And I think I broke the wings off that little songbird
Em C G
She's never gonna fly to the top of the world now
D
To the top of the world
I don't have to answer any of these questions
Don't have no god to teach me no lessons
I'd come home in the evening, sit in my chair
One night they called me for supper, but I never got up
I stayed right there in my chair
There's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
I think I broke the wings off that little songbird
She's never gonna fly to the top of the world now
To the top of the world
Em C
Ooooh oooh, oooh oooh
I wish I'd have known you, wish I'd have shown you
All of the things I was on the inside
But I'd pretend to be sleeping when you'd come in in the morning
To whisper goodbye and go to work in the rain
Now I don't know why, don't know why
And everyone's singing we just wanna be heard
Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow
Wanna grab ahold of that little songbird
Take her for a ride to the top of the world right now
To the top of the world
Em C
Ohhh ohhh, ohhh ohhh
Em C
To the top of the world, to the top of the world
Em C
To the top of the world, to the top of the world
Em C
To the top of the world, to the top of the world
Em
The top of the world