The Change  (Tony Arata, Wayne Tester) 
Performed by Garth Brooks on "Fresh Horses" 
Transcribed by D.C. Girvan  [email protected] 
 
Intro:    Ebmaj7		Gm		Eb(9) 
 
Dm7 
One hand 
F/Eb       Eb 
Reaches out 
Bb                       F/A 	          Eb       Eb/F 
  And pulls a lost soul from harm 
F             F/G         Gm 
While a thousand more 
          Ebmaj7 
Go unspoken for 
                Bb 
They say what good have you done 
       Ab 
By saving just this one 
             Fsus                     F 
It's like whispering a prayer 
           Fsus                F 
In the fury of a storm 
 
 
Chorus 
                           Ebmaj7                  Bb 
And I hear them saying you'll never change things 
             F7                                                   Eb/Bb     
    Bb 
And no matter what you do it's still the same                 thing 
                         Ebmaj7            Gm              Eb 
But it's not the world that I am chang- - - - -ing 
   Bb                  Eb/F              F7 
I do this so this world will know 
                         Eb/Bb       Bb 
That it will not change      me 
 
 
Verse 2: 
This heart 
Still believes 
That love and mercy still exist 
While all the hatreds rage and so many say 
That love is all but pointless in madness such as this 
It's like trying to stop a fire 
With the moisture from a kiss 
 
Repeat Chorus 
Bridge: 
Ab 
As long as one heart still lives on 
Gm7                                                Bb/F         F 
Then hope is never really gone 
 
 
Bb                         Ebmaj7                  Bb 
And I hear them saying you'll never change things 
             F7                                                   Eb/Bb     
    Bb 
And no matter what you do it's still the same                 thing 
                         Ebmaj7            Gm              Eb 
But it's not the world that I am chang- - - - -ing 
   Bb                  Eb/F              F7 
I do this so this world we know 
           Gm                  Eb 
Never changes me 
 
               Bb 
What I do is so 
        Eb/F                 F7 
This world will know 
                         Eb/Bb  Bb	Eb/Bb	Bb 
That it will not change me 
 
Outro: Eb(9)		Gm	Eb(9)