What Mattered Most

	  		Date: 1-20-01   1:22pm 
From: [email protected] 
Subject: "What Mattered Most" by Gary Burr 
 
What Mattered Most 
Performed by Gary Burr 
Written by Gary Burr and Vince Melamed 
From the Gary Burr CD "Stop Me If You've Heard This One" 
 
(I saw Gary Burr do this at the Bluebird, in Nashville. He  
 sings it much slower and with more of a "bluesy" feel than  
 the hit version. After the performance, there wasn't a dry 
 eye in the house.) 
 
 D   D/F#  G   A,  D  D/F#  G   A 
  
	         D                    D/F#	 
I thought I knew, the girl so well 
G		               D 
If she was sad, I couldn't tell 
			        D/F# 
I missed the point, I missed the signs 
G	    		              D 	  
So if she's gone, the fault is mine 
   Em				               D 
I know, I know, a whole lot of little things 
     Em 			                  D	 
And even though, I could list them one by one 
		        A7sus         A7 
She would still be gone 
 
Chorus 
		   D                 D/F# 
Her eyes are blue   her hair is long 
     G              D/A 
In '64        she was born 
      A      D 
in Baton Rouge 
              D/F#             G 
Her favorite song    is "In My Life" 
 
              D/A       Bm 
I memorized her every move 
	       A		        G 
I knew her books, her car, her clothes 
       D      D/F#     G               A          D    
But I paid,    no  attention   to what mattered most 
 
Verse 2 
I never asked, she never said 
And when she cried I turned my head 
She dreamed her dreams, behind closed doors 
That made them easy to ignore 
I know, I know, I missed the forest for the trees 
Now all I have to show 
When she walked out the door 
Are cold facts and nothin' more 
 
Chorus 
 
Last Chorus: 
Her eyes are blue, her hair is long, In '64 
She was born, in Baton Rouge,  
Her father's tall, her mother's gone, 
She moved out West when she was two, 
The way she laughed, the way she loved, 
Oh my God what did I do?