If I'd Only Met You First lyrics and chords

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If I'd Only Met You First 
Recorded by Carl Butler
Written by Hank Cochran and Carl Butler

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Just like so many other men we hear about in song
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I wed the wrong girl just before the right one came along
       C                              F
Though I was tied to someone else the day you came my way
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But if I'd only met you first you'd be my own today

  F                             C
I knew I didn't love her on the day we said I do
    F                                 C              G7
But placed the ring upon her hand and promised to be true
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I thought someday I'd learn to care and so we made the vow
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But if I'd only met you first things would be different now

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The one I hold in my heart now can never have my name
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Because the one I never loved would have to bare the shame
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To leave her now would break her heart and that's what makes me stay
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But if I'd only met you first it wouldn't be this way

   F                              C
So now I'm doomed to live a lie because we met too late
       F                          C                G7
She'll never set me free and so I can't ask you to wait
   C                              F
If you should find another love I won't stand in your way
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But if I'd only met you first you'd be my own today

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