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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date: March 19, 1999
Album:  Wide Open Spaces
Written by:  Bruce Miller\Thom McHugh


ONCE YOU'VE LOVED SOMEBODY    Dixie Chicks

Intro chords  F C F C   F C F C 

C                       Em
I should go out tonight Get on with my life
 F                           C     G  
Break these chains of soli-tude
C                                     Em
With a little luck and a little help might even find myself
F                       G
In the arms of someone new  cause
  
CHORUS:
(G)           F         C   F C                F      C   F C
Once you've loved some-body     It ain't that easy to do
(C)        F          C  F Em                C   F  C
Once you loved some-body       Like I loved you


C                               Em
Look what you've gone and done ruined everything for anyone
F                                C    G
Who tries to steal this heart a-way
C                            Em
I can't get you off my mind, try to tell myself a million times
F                         G
A little time is all it takes,

Chorus, bridge

BRIDGE:
Bb                     C
I gave you everything that I have to give
Bb                     G
I don't know if I can go that far again cause   go to chorus, "Oh", 

chorus