Thanks To You

Words & Music by John L. Christopher, John Denver, Conrad Reeder & Sam Hogin
from The Flower That Shattered The Stone (1990)


Unusual Chords
D7/G   :  3x453x
G/B    :  x2x033
D/C    :  x3x232
C/D    :  xx0020
E/G#   :  4x2400

G    D7/G   G/B               C    D/C   C/D 
G    D7/G   G/B               C    D/C   C/D

G            G/B          C       D7
Not so long ago, I packed my bags a hundred times
G             G/B    C           D7
Didn't seem to know, how to stop or to unwind
Em        Bm        C                 A7
   Goin' nowhere, a man without a dream

  G              G/B   C               D7
I guess my lucky star, fell the day you came along
G             G/B  C             D7
To my lonely heart, you are like a special song
Em       Bm           C         A7
Singing sweetly your tender melody

G         G/B          C          D
Thanks to you, the child inside me lives again;
G         G/B  C            D
Thanks to you, I have found a peace within.
C            G              Em            C
I know where I'm goin' and what I want to do
D               G    D7/G   G/B     C    D/C   C/D 
   Thanks to you

G    D7/G   G/B     C    D/C   C/D 

Em            E/G#      A
Lying in your arms, I've found my greatest pleasure
   F#                    D               D7
I look into your eyes and dream about forever.

G                 G/B   C              D7
Wakin' up with you and lookin' forward to the day
G              G/B          C           D7
What we plan to do, knowin' anything at all's okay
Em         Bm        C                  A7
Life has a meaning and love has got a name

G         G/B        C            D
Thanks to you, the child inside me lives again;
G         G/B  C              D
Thanks to you, I have found a peace within.
C            G             Em              C
I know where I'm goin' and what I want to do
D              G    D7/G   G/B    C    D/C   C/D 
  Thanks to you
G    D7/G   G/B         C    D/C   C/D 
G    D7/G   G/B         C    D/C   C/D 

Copyright 1989 by Cherry Mountain Music (ASCAP),
Johnny Christopher Music (BMI), Corrie Kale Music (BMI)
and Poly Vinyl Music (BMI)