Barry Manilow - Sandra

      
 
 Sandra by Barry Manilow
 
 Intro: Em/D-C-Em/D-C
 Em-D-C-D pause
 
         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
 D/Am                  G                            Ab/G 
 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
 
  C#/D   Bm                         F#m            
 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
                G                            F#m 
 Depressed for a while when the youngest was born
        B           Em            A 
 Oh but that happens now and again
    D/Am          G                       Ab/G 
 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
 
   C#/D  Bm                         F#m               
 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
 
     C#/D 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
 
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