Jun62023

Miranda Lambert feat. Leon Bridges – If You Were Mine

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[Intro]
G   Bm   F   C

[Verse]
G
You're a needle
 in a haystack
       Bm
You're so damn hard to find
 F
Candy apple red Cadillac
 C
You're one of a kind

G
He let you go like
 a dandelion
         Bm
And you blew out
with the breeze
F
If I ever get a
hold of you
     C
I'd never let you leave

[Chorus]
     G
I'd make sure your
  Em        D
 stars are shining
 Em
Sure as the Frio's
  C     D
winding

     G         Em
I'd bottle you up
       D
like lightning

     Em
I'd rope the
moon for you
           C
A million times
                D
That's what I'd do
             G
If you were mine

[Instrument]
G  Em  Bm
F  Dm F C

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[Verse]
 G
I'd drink you down
like fine wine
      Bm
Till there was
 nothing left
F
Boy, it should
 be criminal
     C
The way you steal
     D
my breath

[Chorus]
     G
I'd make sure your
  Em        D
 stars are shining
 Em
Sure as the Frio's
  C     D
winding

     G         Em
I'd bottle you up
       D
like lightning

     Em
I'd rope the moon for you
           C
A million times
                D
That's what I'd do
             G
If you were mine

[Instrument]
G   Bm   F   C

[Break]
 D
I'd memorize you
like a scripture
 C
Hang on every word, ooh
 D
I'd make you
my whole world
 F
Boy, if I was her

 Am
Girl, for what it's worth

[Chorus]
 G
I'd make sure your
             D
stars were shining
(Make sure your
            Em
 stars are shining)
                     C
Sure as the Frio is winding
              D
(Sure as the Frio
     G
is winding)
 G         Em
Bottle you up like
  D
lightning
Lightning
     Em
I'd rope the moon for you
(For you)
           C
A million times
                D
(That's what I'd do)

             G   Bm
If you were mine

[Outro]
                     F
Oooooh, if you were mine
           C
(Ooh-ooh, you were mine}
                        G
Mmm mm mm, if you were mine
           Bm
(You were mine)
          F
You were mine
          C
(All mine)
           G  Em
(Mine, mi-ine)

 Bm
(Mmm mm mm mm mm)
 F  Dm F C

How to play If You Were Mine: key, chords and progression

These are If You Were Mine chords by Miranda Lambert feat. Leon Bridges on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

If You Were Mine by Miranda Lambert feat. Leon Bridges keeps coming home to C major (no sharps or flats). You need 8 chords: G, Bm, F, C, Em, D, Dm and Am.

Listen for G – Bm – F – C (V – vii – IV – I in C major): the song comes back to it again and again. In solfa, that is soh – te – fah – doh. Once these 4 changes are comfortable, most of the song is done.

Good to know: Bm and F are the tricky part on guitar (barre or movable shapes). Slow the change down until it is clean; on piano and ukulele they are simpler.