Calm piano song, there's not really the need for strumming here. You can simply play this song by doing a down strum on each chord and let it sustain.
Bm G Bm
As a girl, I lived in a million homes
Em
So I always would keep to myself
Dbm
And my lessons were learned
Dbm
From the stories and poems
C
I would steal from a library shelf
Abm
Yes, the books like the Roots
Bb
Weren't mine to keep
Gbm Em
But the words weren't left behind
Ebm Dbm Eb
And I think of them all and I can't sleep
Bm Dbm Gb
And a poet who read my mind
B
As the wise men once wrote
Gb Ab
Never give all the heart
Ebm Dbm
Well, it's easy to see
Abm
He was writing for me
Ebm Abm
I just wish I could play that part
E Gb
Yes, he scribbled that love isn't worth thinking of
Ebm
That is fades out from kiss to kiss
B
If I just learned those lines
Db Dbm
Well, just think of the misery I'd miss
Ab
As the Irish men said
B Eb
Don't put your heart up to play
B
When he warned of the cost
Gb
And the heart that he lost
Ebm Gb
Mister Yeats really paved the way
Dbm
For the men that I've known
G
Who have clearly shown
Ebm Gb
They've reading him from the start
Dbm
'Cause when it comes to me
Db G
Well, their kisses come free
B B
But they never give all the heart
E Gb B Ebm
B
When he warned of the cost
Dbm
And the heart that he lost
Ebm Gb
Mister Yeats really paved the way
Dbm
For the men that I've known
G
Well, they've clearly shown
Ebm Ab
They been reading him from the start
B
'Cause each time that I fall
Dbm Em Eb Bm Em
They never give all the heart
C B
MmmmmmMmmm....
