I Dance And Dance And Smile And Smile Chords by Dory Previn

_ This next song is a song about my father, which I guess two in a row tends to constitute a hang-up.
_ _ _ _ But there it is.
_ And this is called, uh, I Dance and Dance and Smile and Smile.
_ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _
I'm always loving someone _ _ more than he loves me.
[Gm] _ _
Lord, I wish just this once, [Cm] _
that's not how [Ab] it would _ [F] be. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ I always try too hard when I find someone new.
[Gm] _ _ God, I wish just this once, [Cm] _ you'd need me [Ab] more than I [F] need you. _ _ _
I [Bb] _ danced to please my father, _ [G] _ _ just to win one glance, [Ebm] _ some sign of his approval.
_ _ [Ab] I danced and danced and danced and danced.
[Bb] I smiled to make my mother _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ proud.
I was her [Ebm] child, _ to gain some small attention.
[Ab] I smiled and smiled and smiled and [Gb] smiled.
My books and bikes I'd bartered, _ [F] to try to buy a friend.
_ _ [E] Now I'm grown, this heart I own, [F] _ is the currency I spend and spend and spend. _
[G] _ And [Bb] _ _ _ in the end I'll give you _ _ everything I own.
_ [Gm] _ Sure you'd never want me [Cm] for _ _ [Ab] myself _ alone.
[F] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ How I hate the way I am, _ always trying to impress.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ Lord, if I could love me more, [Cm] _ _ I could [Ab] love you _ [F] _ less. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ And if I could love you less, [Bbm] _ _ I would not confuse you.
_ [Fm] Dancing, dancing, smiling, smiling, _ [C] _ till of course _ _ _ [Fm] I lose _ _ _ you. _ _ _ _
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