The Dance
Garth Brooks

Submitted By Tiny man


[Keyboard Intro]
 Em           C        Dsus D
|---0-2-3-5-3-2--------3-5-7-3------------------------------
|--0-------------------------------------3------------------
|--------------------0---------------0-2---2-0-2-0----------
|-2---------------------------------0-----------------------
|------------------3----------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------


[Guitar Intro]
  G   C        G   C     G   D  C     G
|-----------------------------------------------------------------
|----0---0---1-----------0---0---1---------0----3---1-------0-----
|--0---0---0---0-------0---0---0---0-----0---0----0---0-----------
|--------0---2---------------0---2--------------4---2-------0-----
|----2-------------------2-----------------2----------------------
|-3-------------------3-----------------3-------------------3-----




[Intro]  Play Riff 1 or play Em   C    Dsus D
         Play Riff 2 or Play G  C  G  C  G  D C G  Pause



              G     C  G     C                   D                                 G
Looking back____ on the memory of ,The dance we shared  'neath the stars above
D     G                 C                                D                             Em           D
For a moment all  the world was right How could I have known  that you'd ever say goodbye



[Chorus]
        Cx2                      Dx2                 Bm7x2                         C    D
And now  I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end ___The way it all would go---ooo
      Cx2                      Dx2                          Bm7x2                    C  D     G?
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd have had to miss the dance



[Repeat 2nd Intro]    C  G  C  G  D C G Pause


          G   C  G          C                   D                G        D     G
Holding you ______ I held everything For a moment wasn't I a king If I'd only known
             C                         D                            Em                      D
how the king would fall Then, who's to say you know I might have changed it all



[Chorus]
        Cx2                      Dx2                             Bm7x2                         C    D
And now  I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end ___The way it all would go---ooo
      Cx2                      Dx2                                  Bm7x2                     C  D
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd have had to miss the
G     C  G         Cx2                     Dx2                                  Bm7x2
Dance_______ Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain ___But I'd have had
    C    D pause  G
To miss the ________dance

 [Keyboard Ending]
       Em                  C                    Dsus D              Em
|---2-3-0-5-7-------0-5-7-3----------------------0------------------
|--0--------------3----------------3------------0---3---0-----------
|---------------0--------------0-2---2---------0---2---2-0---2-0----
|-2--------------------------0----------4-2-4-2------------------2--
|--------------3----------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------


[Ending Solo]   Play Ending Riff (x4) Or   Em  C  Dsus D  Em (x4)