The Manuscript chords by Taylor Swift

Chords with lyrics (Ver. 2)

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: A augmentedA

🎸 Intro:

A augmentedA  E MajorE   D MajorD  (x2)

🎸 Verse:
A augmentedA                E MajorE
Now and then she rereads the manuscript
            D MajorD
Of the entire torrid affair
A augmentedA
They compared their licenses
  E MajorE
He said, "I'm not a donor but
               D MajorD
I'd give you my heart if you needed it"
   A augmentedA
She rolled her eyes and said
        E MajorE
"You're a professional"
                D MajorD
He said, "No, just a good samaritan"
  A augmentedA                 E MajorE
He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was
             D MajorD
Soon they'd be pushin' strollers
    A augmentedA
But soon it was over

🎸 Instrumental:
E MajorE  D MajorD
A augmentedA  E MajorE   D MajorD

🎸 Verse:
    A augmentedA                E MajorE
In the age of him, she wished she was thirty
                   D MajorD
And made coffee every morning in a Frеnch press
A augmentedA                E MajorE
Afterwards she only atе kids' cereal
                     D MajorD
And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed
A augmentedA                 E MajorE
Then she dated boys who were her own age
                    D MajorD
With dart boards on the backs of their doors
   A augmentedA                 E MajorE
She thought about how he said since she was so wise beyond her years
              D MajorD
Everything had been above board
      A augmentedA
She wasn't sure

🎸 Instrumental:
E MajorE   D MajorD
A augmentedA   E MajorE   D MajorD

🎸 Bridge:
     E MajorE
And the years passed
    F# minorF#m      D MajorD
Like scenes of a show
    E MajorE        F# minorF#m       D MajorD
The Professor said to write what you know
     E MajorE
Lookin' backwards
    A augmentedA      E MajorE       D MajorD
Might be the only way to move forward
     E MajorE
Then the actors
   F# minorF#m       D MajorD
Were hitting their marks
     E MajorE
And the slow dance
   F# minorF#m        D MajorD
Was alight with the sparks
     E MajorE
And the tears fell
   A augmentedA    E MajorE        D MajorD
In synchronicity with the score
    E MajorE
And at last
     A augmentedA      E MajorE      D MajorD
She knew what the agony had been for

🎸 Verse:
   A augmentedA                 E MajorE
The only thing that's left is the manuscript
                    D MajorD
One last souvenir from my trip to your shores
A augmentedA               E MajorE
Now and then I reread the manuscript
             D MajorD
But the story isn't mine anymore

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