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 HarmusmanPlay on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound
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