If These Walls Could Speak

{title:If These Walls Could Speak}

{st:by Jim Webb}

{st:(as performed by Shawn Colvin)}

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{c:Intro...}

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If [F]these old [G]walls, if [F]these old [G]walls could [C]speak

What a [C]tale they'd [G]have to [Am]tell

Hard headed [C/E]people [G]raisin' [F]hell

A [F]couple [C]in [G]love livin' [C]week [C/E]to [F]week

Rooms full of [C/G]laughter, if [F]these old walls [C]could [G]speak

If these old halls, if hallowed halls could talk

These would have a tale to tell

The sun goin' down and dinner bells

And children playin' at hide and seek

>From floor to rafters, if these old walls could speak

They would tell you [G]that I'm [C]sorry [G]

For bein' cold and [G]blind and [C]weak [G]

They would tell you [G]that it's [Am]only that I have a [G]stubborn [F]streak

If these walls could [C]speak

If these old fashion window panes had eyes

I guess they would have seen it all

Each little tear and silent step fall

And every dream that we came to seek

And followed after, if these old walls could speak

They would tell you that I owe you

More than I could ever pay

Here's someone who really loves you

Don't ever go away

That's what these walls would say

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# transcribed by G. Knapp & D. Wegeng (dlw@eng.mc.xerox.com)

# 13 September 1994

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