The Ball

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



     F                                    C/E
Well me and Cyndi Miller were supposed to meet after the game,
  Dm                       Bb
I waited by the bleachers, but she never came.
          F                          C/E
I found a note on my windshield underneath the wiper blade,
      Dm                                  Bb
With 'Goodbye' bleeding through it in the cold October rain.
            C/E
We probably would have gotten married,
            Dm               C/E             Bb     F/A
And those recruiters in from Bama 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       F/A
Things had gone the way I planned.
        Bb                                Dm
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
   Gm                             C
Is something that I'll never understand.



  F                            C/E
I ran away that Summer, took a job out on the coast.
           Dm                              Bb
And that's where I met your momma, and the rest I guess you know.
     F                             C/E
If I had the chance to go back and score that last touchdown,
     Dm                                Bb
Well son, I wouldn't do it, 'cause you wouldn't be here now.
      C/E
And I wouldn't be your hero,
           Dm           C/E                F    F/A
I wouldn't be around to catch you 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       F/A
Things had gone the way I planned.
        Bb                                Dm
But the fact is that they didn't, and the hand I wound up gettin'
       Gm                          C
Is the one that God intended me to have.



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