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The story of my life

by Hal David & Burt Bacharach · posted by harmusman

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Recorded by Michael Holliday 1958, this song has short wistle break in the lyric which I have marked such (-10 7) you can leave this out, or get a friend to fill in. I think if you hear this on You tube it will become clear to all.

Opening whistle;              4
10  9/-9 -8 8/7 8 -10/9      Some-/
  5   6   6  -6   4  (-10 7)-4   5  6  6  -6
-day I'm gon-na/write       the/sto-ry of my/
 4   (-10 7) -4   5   6  6    6   -6   6   6
life,       I'll/tell a-bout the/night we met/
-5   7  7    7    -8    8   8  -8   7   6
and how my heart/can't for-get the/way you/
  -5   -4 4 (10 9  -9 -8 8 7) 4
smiled at/me      /          I'd/
 5    6    6   -6  4  (-10 7)-4   5  6  6  -6    
like the world to/know       the/sto-ry of my/
 4  (-10 7) -4 5   6    6    6    -6   6    6
life       the/mo-ment when your/lips met mine/
-5   7     7   7    -8   8   8  -8  7    6
and that first ex-/-cit-ing time I/held you/
 -5   -4 4  (8 -10  9)
close to/me        /
 7  -6   7   7    7   7   -8    8 -8 7  7   7  
The sor-row when our love was/break-ing up the/
-6   7  7  7  7   7   -6  6   7
mem-ory of a bro-ken/heart-- then/
-6  7  7   7   7  -8  8 -8 7 7
la-ter on the joy of/mak-ing up,/
-8 -8  -8 -8   -8  -8  -7 6     4
ne-ver ne-ver more to/part-- There's/
 5    6    6   -6 4 (-10 7)-4   5   6   6   -6
one thing left to/do       be-/fore my sto-ry's/
  4   (-10 7) -4   5  6   6    6  -6  6   6
through      I've/got to take you/for my wife/
-5  7   7  7  -8 8   8   -8   7     6
so the sto-ry/of my life can/start and/
-5   -4   4
end with/you    /    ://
 
repeat from, The/sor-row when our love, ect;
and then go into this 2nd ending.
-5  -4    7    6  -5  -4    7    6  -5   -4
end and/start and/end and/start and/end with/
 4  (10 9  -9 -8 8  7)
you       /       /    //


Yours Harmusman
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