Taylor Swift – All You Had To Do Was Stay

Performed by
Taylor Swift
Release Year
2023
Album
1989 (Taylor's Version)
Suggested Capo
Fret 5

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Taylor Swift – All You Had To Do Was Stay
Key: F Major BPM: ♩ = 97 Time: 4/4
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   People like you always want back the love they gave
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away, and people like me wanna believe you when you say you’ve
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 changed, the more I think about it now, the less I
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 know, all I know is that you drove us off the road

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(Stay) Hey, all you had to do was stay, had me in the palm of your
|C                                  |Dm                 C          |
 hand, then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
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(Stay) Hey, now you say you want it back, now that it's just too
|C                             |Dm                 C            |
 late, well, it could've been easy, all you had to do was (stay)

|Bb                           |F                             |
   All you had to do was (stay), all you had to do was (stay)
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   All you had to do was (stay), all you had to do was stay

|Bb                            |F                           |
   Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to
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 say, I’ve been picking up the pieces of the mess you
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 made, people like you always want back the love they pushed
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aside, but people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye

|Bb                          |F                                   |
(Stay) Hey, all you had to do was stay, had me in the palm of your
|C                                  |Dm                 C          |
 hand, then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
|Bb                             |F                              |
(Stay) Hey, now you say you want it back, now that it's just too
|C                             |Dm                 C            |
 late, well, it could've been easy, all you had to do was (stay)

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   All you had to do was (stay), all you had to do was (stay)
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   All you had to do was (stay),      let me remind you

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 This was what you wanted,  you ended it
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 You were all I wanted,  but not like

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 this, not like this,  not like this, oh, all you had to do was

|Bb                          |F                                   |
(Stay) Hey, all you had to do was stay, had me in the palm of your
|C                                  |Dm                 C          |
 hand, then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
|Bb                             |F                              |
(Stay) Hey, now you say you want it back, now that it's just too
|C                             |Dm                 C            |
 late, well, it could've been easy, all you had to do was (stay)

|Bb                          |F                                   |
(Stay) Hey, all you had to do was stay, had me in the palm of your
|C                                  |Dm                 C          |
 hand, then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
|Bb                             |F                              |
(Stay) Hey, now you say you want it back, now that it's just too
|C                             |Dm                                              C            |
 late, well, it could've been easy (all you had to do was stay), all you had to do was (stay)

|Bb                           |F                             |
   All you had to do was (stay), all you had to do was (stay)
|C                            |Dm               C            |
   All you had to do was (stay), all you had to do was (stay)