Misc Musicals – Beetlejuice - Children We Didnt Have (Guitar)
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NOTE: This is the chord progression used in Kerry's StarsInTheHouse performance. The version cut from the show
uses Am7 and G instead of Csus2 and Csus2/B for the first two lines when beginning a verse (like in the last
verse of this version), but all other uses are unchanged.
[Intro]
Csus2
[Verse 1]
Csus2 Csus2/B Fsus2 Children we didn’t have don’t call. Csus2 Csus2/B Fsus2 Their heights aren’t marked in pencil on the wall. Dm7 Em7 They don’t ride bikes, cry out at night, Am E7 Or fall and graze a knee. Am G Fm6 And their arms will never reach, Csus2 Csus2/B Csus2 G/C F/C G/C For the mother I never got to be.
[Verse 2]
Csus2 Csus2/B Fsus2 The children we didn’t have press in, Csus2 Csus2/B Fsus2 Remind me that we couldn’t just begin. Dm7 Em7 They’d laugh on swings, and whisper things Am E7 I’m not suppose to know. Am G Fm6 And they never stop to see, Csus2 Csus2/B Csus2 The mother that never was, that’s me.
[Bridge]
Fadd2 Cadd2 Think about all the children we didn’t have, Dm7 Cadd2 Picture them playing in the light. Em Think of them deep in thought, F Fm Think of their face when they’re caught, A# Fsus2 Gsus4 G Doing something naughty. Dm7 Now picture them three or four, Em7 Picture them walking out the door. G#maj7 Think of them twenty or thirty or forty, Csus2 Or maybe fifteen. Fadd2 I think you know who I mean.
[Verse 3]
Am7 G F The daughter we didn’t have moved in, Am7 G F Smart and sad, uneasy in her skin. Dm7 Em7 Far too young to lose a mom, Am E7 Or take the path she’s travelling on. Am G Fm6 If I could whisper in her ear, Csus2 Fadd2 I’d tell the daughter we didn’t have, Cadd2 I’m here.