Live Like You Were Dying — Piano Lead Sheet

He said, “I was in my ear ly for ties with a (C)lot of life be fore me when a (Em)mo ment came that stopped me on a dime. I spent (G)most of the next days look in’ at the x rays and talk in’ ’bout the op tions and (Cmaj7)talk in’ ’bout sweet time.” I asked him, when it sank in, if this might real ly be the real end, how’s it (G)hit you when you get that kind of news? Man, what’d you do? And he said, (CN.C.)“I went (G)sky div in’, I went Rock y Moun tain climb in’, I went (Em)two point sev en sec onds on a bull named Fu Man chu. And I (G)loved deep er and I spoke sweet er and I gave for give ness I’d been de ny in’.” And he said, “Some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dy in’.” He said, “I was fi nal ly the hus band that most the time I was n’t and I be (Em)came a friend a friend would like to have. And all the (G)sud den go in’ fish in’ was n’t (C)such an im po si tion and I went three times that year I lost my dad. Well, I, I fin ’lly read the Good Book and I took a good long hard look at what I’d (G)do if I could do it all a gain. And then (CN.C.)I went to live like you were dy in’, like to mor row was a gift and you got e ter ni ty to think a bout what you’d do with it, what could you do with it, what did I do with it, what would I do with it? (A)Sky div in’, I went Rock y Moun tain climb in’, I went (F#m7)two point sev en sec onds on a bull named Fu Man chu. And I (A)loved deep er and I spoke sweet er and I watched an ea gle as it was (D)fly in’.” And he said, “Some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dy in’, to live like you were dy in’, to live like you were dy in’, to live like you were dy in’, to live like you were dy in’.”