Cifras
The Ball

Tom: F

Introdução:

F                                                                                                 C/E  
If I hadn't dropped the ball, I would have took it all the way,
          Dm                                                 Bb  
Homecoming' '89 with ten seconds left to play.
                     F                                                                                                      C/E  
We were drivin' toward the goal line, they were screamin' in the stands,
                          Dm                                                                    Bb  
I had the chance to be a hero, but it slipped right through my hands.
                                             C/E  
There would have been a big pep rally,
             Dm                                            C/E                            Bb      F/A  
They would have hung my jersey on the wall....
Gm            C                                              F  
     If I hadn't dropped the ball.
             F                                                                                              C/E  
Well me and Cyndi Miller were supposed to meet after the game,
     Dm                                                            Bb  
I waited by the bleachers, but she never came.
                          F                                                                    C/E  
I found a note on my windshield underneath the wiper blade,
                Dm                                                                                         Bb  
With 'Goodbye' bleeding through it in the cold October rain.
                                C/E  
We probably would have gotten married,
                                Dm                                      C/E                                 Bb            F/A  
And those recruiters in from Bama would have called....
Gm            C                                              F  
     If I hadn't dropped the ball.
                     Bb  
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
                                                                     F                 F/A  
Things had gone the way I planned.
                     Bb                                                                                    Dm  
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
        Gm                                                                            C  
Is something that I'll never understand.
     F                                                                         C/E  
I ran away that Summer, took a job out on the coast.
                             Dm                                                                              Bb  
And that's where I met your momma, and the rest I guess you know.
             F                                                                            C/E  
If I had the chance to go back and score that last touchdown,
             Dm                                                                                    Bb  
Well son, I wouldn't do it, 'cause you wouldn't be here now.
                C/E  
And I wouldn't be your hero,
                             Dm                            C/E                                         F         F/A  
I wouldn't be around to catch you when you fall....
Gm            C                                              F  
     If I hadn't dropped the ball.
                     Bb  
My life would have been so different if in that answer,
                                                                     F                 F/A  
Things had gone the way I planned.
                     Bb                                                                                    Dm  
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
                  Gm                                                                    C  
Is the one that God intended me to have.
             Bb                            F/A                      Gm  
No I wouldn't the man I am at all,
             C                                              F  
If I hadn't dropped the ball.