Standing On Your Shoulders

 
C        G/B         Am7 
I'm on a stage right now 
C    G/B            Am7                F 
It's wild that it's me they're here to listen to 
                   G 
And not some other fool 
C      G/B        Am7 
You're back in my hometown 
F                    C/E 
I've been meaning to call you up 
    Dm7                  C/E 
And ask what you've been doing 
      F                G 
I bet cleaning out the pool 
 

 
F               G              Am7 
You believed in me when no one did 
F             G              C    C/E 
You'll always have a part of this 
F             G             Am7 
Deep down I'm just a little kid 
Dm7      C/E      F    G 
Hoping I make you proud 
 

 
F         C 
I've been standing on your shoulders 
G            Am7 
For my whole life 
F             C 
Wasn't 'til I started getting older 
G                  Am7 
That I started realizing 
F                C 
All the ways you made a way for me 
G                   Am7 
The things you sacrificed 
F                  C                  A 
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders 
       C 
For my whole life, yeah 
         C 
My whole life 
 

 
C            G/B     Am7 
It shouldn't be this hard 
   F                C/E                 G 
To tell someone the part they played in making you 
F            G            C 
Guess that's why we never do 
C/E  F       G    Am7 
  So I wrote this down 
         F                C/E            G 
It ain't half of what I'd really like to say to you 
    Dm7   C/E  F  G 
But it'll have to do 
 

 
F         G            Am7 
You had a quiet steady confidence 
F   G               C      C/E 
You said it without saying it 
F        G         Am7 
Days and years and brick-by-brick 
Dm7 C/E    F        G 
You said I made you proud 
 

 
F         C 
I've been standing on your shoulders 
G            Am7 
For my whole life 
F             C 
Wasn't 'til I started getting older 
G                  Am7 
That I started realizing 
F                C 
All the ways you made a way for me 
G                   Am7 
And things you sacrificed 
F                  C                  G 
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders 
       C 
For my whole life 
 

 
C 
My whole life 
F         C                          G        Am7 
I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life 
F   G        C 
Oh, yeah-yeah 
 

 
Am7     G         F 
In your rolled-up sleeves 
C/E         Dm7  C/E G 
You did the best you could 
Am7 G       F 
You saw the best in me 
C/E       Dm7       C/E F    G 
And that's more than I could ask for 
 

 
F         C 
I've been standing on your shoulders 
G           Am7 
For my whole life 
F  C 
It took getting older 
G                   Am7 
'Fore I started realizing 
F                C 
All the ways you made a way for me 
G                   Am7 
And things you sacrificed 
F                  C                  G 
I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders 
       C 
For my whole life 
 

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C 
My whole life 
F         C                G                  Am7 
I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life 
F   G 
Yeah 
C 
My whole life