Chords for Bill Gaither - We Have This Moment, Today / When Did I Start To Love You

We wrote it 40 years ago.
I don't think [Bb] there's a night that we don't sing it, right Reggie, with the vocal band?
Every night.
Every night.
And [Db] we keep [Ebm] trying to say, _ don't miss it.
_ Don't miss it.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ Hold tight to the sounds of the music of living. _
[F] Happy songs from the laughter [C] of the children [Eb] of play.
_ _ _ [Bb] Hold my hand, babes, [Dm] _ as we run [F] through the sweet, [Bb] fragrant meadows,
_ [C] making memories [F] of what _ [Bb] was the day.
_ Help [Dm] us, Gary.
[Eb] We _ have this moment [Bb] to hold in our hands [Gm] [F] and to touch
as it slips through [Bb] our fingers like _ sand.
[Eb] _ _ _
Yesterday's gone and [Dm] _ tomorrow [G] may never come,
[Cm] but we _ have this [Dm] moment _ [Bb] today. _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ You hear that [Gm] tiny voice?
It's [Bb] my not-so-tiny daughter, [Eb] who's still calling for me [F] to stop and listen _ [Bb] to what she has to say. _
_ _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _
[F] My little son, _ [Bb] running there down that hillside, _ [Cm] may never [F] be quite _ [Bb] like today.
We _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ have this moment [Bb] to hold in our [F] hands and to touch
_ as it slips through [Bb] our fingers like _ sand.
[Eb] _ _ _ Yesterday's gone and [Dm] _ tomorrow _ [G] may never come,
[Eb] but we have [F] this moment [Bb] today.
_ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Does love [F] have a beginning that a meeting's [Ab] measured by?
_ [Fm] Does it happen [F] in a moment like white lightning from the sky?
_ _ Can you tell me its dimensions?
_ Just this wide and just this high, _ _ _ [C] when did I start to love you?
[Bm] _ _ [D] Tell me just how many dates [Eb] it takes for love to really start
and just [Ab] how many kisses will turn love into an art.
_ [Db] _ When [Ab] does the magic moment come [Gb] to give away your heart?
_ When did I start to love you?
[E] _ _ [F] _ [G] Was the day we talked of browning the beginning of it all?
Or that [Bb] time we walked the meadow and the fields of corn so [F] tall
that we felt like naughty children [Ab] hiding from their mother's call?
[Fm] _ [Bb] When did I start to love you? _
I remember just how [F] timidly your first new song you [Ab] shared.
By the way you grinned, I knew that you [Bb] were glad you dared,
although my evaluation [Eb] wasn't worth much.
[Ab] Still, you cared.
_ When did I start to [Gb] love you? _
_ _ _ Was it when I went to meet you in a gown of snowy white?
[Dbm] Was [F] it when we signed the license and drove off into the night?
_ Was it when I gave myself to you and felt that [Gb] it was right? _ _ _
[Ab] When did I start to love you?
_ [Bb] _ When I feared you wouldn't love me if you knew how I'd been [Gb] wrong
and I spent that week in misery.
[Ab] But you'd known it all [Bb] along and you loved me because you love me
and not because I'm [Gb] strong.
_ _ _ [Ab] Then I came to love you.
_ [Bb] _ Was it when we knew for certain about the baby [Gb] on the way?
_ Did it start the day you [Ab] told me I looked pretty, [F] shaped that way? _
Or did something special happen when we waited that last day?
_ _ When did I start to love you?
_ [C]
Did it happen when we held her in our arms for the first time? _
[G] Or was it later when I nursed her?
[Bb] _ This creation, [Gm] yours [C] and mine,
and I knew compared to what we held this world's not worth a [G] dime.
_ _ When did I [Bb] start to love you?
_ [C] There were nights we stayed and prayed by [F] babies,
fevers burning hot when we [Bb] really didn't know if they'd make it through or not.
_ Then [Ab] we'd face the dawn's beginning,
thanking God for what [Db] we've got.
_ [Gb] _
When did I start to love [Gm] you?
_ [G] Was it rushing to the clinic with a bone in Amy's throat?
[C] Was it nights you saw me [G] shivering and wrapped me in your coat?
_ [F] Was it [Bb] when I cleaned your bureau drawer [C] and saw you'd saved my note? _
When did I start to [G] love you?
_ _ Was it when I [Bb] saw you showing Bingey how to be a man?
[C] How to sheathe his strength in [Bb] meekness?
How to gently take a [C] stand?
How that only [Bb] strength of character can salvage this old land?
[C] _
_ When did I start to love you? _ _ _
_ _ When you held me close in silence and there were no words for grief.
_ When that line of empty caskets gaped at all I called [Ab] belief. _ _
[B] When that amen was so final.
I had you _ and dared to leave.
_ Was it then I came to love you?
_ _ _ What is the stuff love's made of that can cause the world to glow?
Was it that you made the segments that I brought you well and whole?
Was it when I came to recognize the poet in your soul that I began to love you? _
_ Oh, it's not of lace and chocolate that valentines are made.
All such things are lovely but disintegrate and fade.
But love, _ when once it grows to be, [C] is richer far than jade. _
I only know _ _ I love you. _
_ Tender words, _ _ [G] _
gentle touch, [Am] and a good cup [C] of coffee.
_ _ [Dm] And [G] someone who loves me [C] _ and wants me to [G] stay. _
[C] _ Hold them near [G] while they're [Em] here.
[Am] Don't wait for _ [C] tomorrow. _
[Dm] _ Look back [G] and wish [C] for today.
Take _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Db] _ _ the [Fm] blue of the skies [Db]
and the green of the forest.
[Gb]
The _ [Ab] golds and the _ browns [Db] of the freshly mowed [Ab] hay.
_ [Db] _
And [Fm] the pale shades of spring, [Bbm] _
circus _ [Db] of autumn.
[Gb] And weave you [Ab] a lovely _ [Db] today.
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Gb] We _ have this _ moment [Db] to hold in our [Bbm] hands and [Ebm] to touch _
[Ab] as it slips through [Db] our fingers like sand.
[Gb] _ _ _
Yesterday's gone and [Fm] tomorrow _ [Bb] may never come.
[Ebm] But we _ have this [Ab] moment _ [Db] today.
_ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ _ Reggie, Lady Love, [Db] Wes, Carmen, _ _ Gene, Todd, [Ab] Sherry, _ _ Adam, [Db] _ _ [Ab] _
[Db] and all of you.
We _ _ _
_ [Ebm] all have _ _ _ this [Ab] moment _ _ _ _ _ _ today.
_ [Db] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Go miss it. _ _ _
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