The Ball

F                             
If I hadn't dropped the ball, I 
        C/E
would have took it all the way,
    Dm                   Bb
Homecoming' '89 with ten seconds 
left to play.
        F                      
We were drivin' toward the goal 
                 C/E
line, they were screamin' in the 
stands,
          Dm                       
I had the chance to be a hero, but 
   Bb
it slipped right through my hands.
                 C/E
There would have been a big pep 
rally,
     Dm                 C/E       
They would have hung my jersey on 
    Bb   F/A
the wall....
Gm     C                  F
  If I hadn't dropped the ball.



     F                       
Well me and Cyndi Miller were 
             C/E
supposed to meet after the game,
  Dm                       Bb
I waited by the bleachers, but she 
never came.
          F                    
I found a note on my windshield 
      C/E
underneath the wiper blade,
      Dm                           
With 'Goodbye' bleeding through it 
       Bb
in the cold October rain.
            C/E
We probably would have gotten 
married,
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            Dm               C/E  
And those recruiters in from Bama 
           Bb     F/A
would have called....
Gm     C                  F
  If I hadn't dropped the ball.



        Bb
My life would have been so different
 if in that answer,
                          F       
Things had gone the way I planned.
F/A

        Bb                       
But the fact is that they didn't, 
         Dm
and the hand I wound up gettin'
   Gm                       
Is something that I'll never 
      C
understand.



  F                            C/E
I ran away that Summer, took a job 
out on the coast.
           Dm                      
And that's where I met your momma, 
        Bb
and the rest I guess you know.
     F                             
If I had the chance to go back and 
C/E
score that last touchdown,
     Dm                            
Well son, I wouldn't do it, 'cause 
    Bb
you wouldn't be here now.
      C/E
And I wouldn't be your hero,
           Dm           C/E       
I wouldn't be around to catch you 
         F    F/A
when you fall....
Gm     C                  F
  If I hadn't dropped the ball.



        Bb
My life would have been so different
 if in that answer,
                          F       
Things had gone the way I planned.
F/A

        Bb                       
But the fact is that they didn't, 
         Dm
and the hand I wound up gettin'
       Gm                          
Is the one that God intended me to 
C
have.



     Bb           F/A         Gm
No I wouldn't the man I am at all,
     C                  F
If I hadn't dropped the ball.