Barry Manilow – Sandra (Guitar)

        D/C#
She's a great little housewife

                     Bm               D
Though sometimes she talks like a fool

                     G                    F#m
But she helps at the store in the holiday rush

B                    Em               A
And she picks up the kids after school

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And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home

                     F#m            B
And she changes from mother to wife

                         Em                   A
'Til she feels the words hanging between them

                     D
And she hangs by her words to her life

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She says I swear I love my husband, I love my kids

  Bm                   F#m     C#m / F#m
I wanted to be like my mother

         G                 A
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

          Bm                            Am
Oh, there might have been time to be me

Dm / Am   G         F#m
For myself, for myself

        Em                  D   C
There's so many things that she wishes

    Em                   D     C
She don't even know what she's missin'

    D                             Em D C D
And that's how she knows that she missed

        D/C#
She's a sweetheart, except when she's moody

                 Bm                 D
It's hard to get through to her then

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Depressed for a while when the youngest was born

        B           Em            A
Oh, but that happens now and again

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She might take a drink with the housework

                       F#m             B
Or when Michael's kept late at the shop

             Em                A
A Martini or two before dinner

               D
But she always knows when to stop

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She says I swear I love my husband and I love my kids

           Bm                   F#m     C#m / F#m
You know I wanted to be like my mother

         G                 A
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

          Bm                            Am
Oh, there might have been time to be me

Dm / Am   G         F#m
For myself, for myself

        Em                  D   C
There's so many things that she wishes

    Em                   D     C
She don't even know what she's missin'

    D                             Em D C D
And that's how she knows that she missed

         D/C#
Oh, they used to hold hands at the movies

                  Bm            D
Now it's seldom if ever they go

                         G                    F#m
Once you've paid for the sitter and parkin' the car

        B        Em                A
There's no money left for the show

        D / Am    G
She was doing the dishes

       Ab/G                       F#m   B
When a glass fell and broke on the tile

                Em                   A
And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake)

                      D
It was real touch and go for a while

    D/C# Bm                       F#m 
She says Oh God, I love my husband and I love my kids

           Bm                       F#m   C#m / F#m
You know I wanted to be like my, my mother

         G                 A        
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

          Bm                         Am
Oh, there might have been time to be me

Dm / Am G        F#m
For myself, for myself

        Em                  D   C
There's so many things that she wishes

    Em                   D     C
She don't even know what she's missin'

    D                            Em D C D C D Em
And that's how she knows that she missed