The story of my life    (video)

 

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1. Someday I'm going to write the story of my life,

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    I'll tell about the night we met, and how my heart can't forget,

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    the way you smiled       at me.

 

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2. I want the world to know the story of my life,

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    the moment when your lips met mine and that first exciting time

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    I held you close        to me.

 

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The sorrow when our love was breakin' up,

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the mem'ry of a broken heart,

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but later on, the joy of makin' up, never never more to part !

 

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3. There's one thing left to do, before my story's through,

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    I've got to take you for my wife,       so the story of my life

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    can start and end         with you.                + CHORUS  

 

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3. There's one thing left to do, before my story's through,

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    I've got to take you for my wife,        so the story of my life

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    can start and end,        can start and end,

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    can start and end        with you.

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Marty Robbins)