{"id":251,"date":"2021-05-10T02:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T02:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=251"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:14:04","slug":"diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code class=\"yqhFQ\"><\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\">Diary\r\nWritten by David Gates\r\nCopyright (c) 1972\r\nPerformed by BREAD\r\n \r\n <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\nC                      Fsus\/C         F\/C                          C\r\nI found her diary underneath the tree and started reading about me\r\nC                      Fsus\/C         F\/C                                 C\r\nThe words she'd written took me by surprise; you'd never read them in her eyes.\r\nAdim7          C                 G7         G#dim7   Am  C7\r\nThey said that she had found the love she'd waited for\r\nF            C        F            C\r\nWouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\nC                             Fsus\/C         F\/C                          C\r\nThen she, confronted with the writing there, simply pretended not to care\r\nC                          Fsus\/C       F\/C                          C\r\nI passed it off as just in keeping with her total disconcerting air.\r\nAdim7          C                 G7        G#dim7  Am Gm7 C7\r\nAnd though she tried to hide the love that she denied\r\nF            C        F            C\r\nWouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it.\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\nG7  G#dim7 Am   C7         F\r\n    And as I go through my life\r\n    Dm7    G7              C\r\n    I will give to her, my wife\r\n            F                  E7sus4\r\n    All the sweet things I can find.\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n \r\nC                      Fsus\/C         F\/C\r\nI found her diary underneath the tree and started reading about me\r\nC                            A#\/C           F\/C\r\nThe words began to stick and tears to flow. Her meaning now was clear to see\r\nAdim7          C              G7      G#dim7    Am  C7\r\nThe love she'd waited for was someone else, not me.\r\nF            C        F            C\r\nWouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it.\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\nG7  G#dim7 Am   C7         F\r\n    And as I go through my life\r\n    <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"Am7\">Dm7<\/span>    <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"D7\">G7<\/span>                <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">C<\/span>\r\n    I will wish for her, his wife\r\n            <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"C\">F<\/span>                    <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">C<\/span>\r\n    All the sweet things she can find\r\n            <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"C\">F<\/span>            <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"C\/D\">F\/G<\/span>      <span class=\"fciXY _Oy28\" data-name=\"G\">C<\/span>\r\n    All the sweet things they can find.\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary Written by David Gates Copyright (c) 1972 Performed by BREAD [Verse 1] C Fsus\/C F\/C C I found her diary underneath the tree and started reading about me C Fsus\/C F\/C C The words she&#8217;d written took me by surprise; you&#8217;d never read them in her eyes. 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