How Can I Miss What I Never Had
By Don Williams
Written by Bob McDill
Album: Epilogue: The Cellar Tapes (2026)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
6/28/2026

Capo 1
 
    C              G          F      C
The taxi's waiting out on the street
F               G                   C
Your things are packed it's time to leave
      C                     G           F    C
You'd think that there'd be tears in my eyes
    F                G           C
But you won't see me crying this time
 
I know it's gonna hurt when you go
But I thought it over and now I know
It wouldn't change a thing if you'd stayed
'Cause you were never mine anyway
 
Chorus
      F                  G           C
And I guess that I could say I'll be blue
  Am            F        G       C
I might spend a lifetime missing you
      F                 G     C  F
But I don't think it'll be so bad
       F         C         G       C    G F C G F
'Cause how can I miss what I never had
 
This room will seem so cold without you
And I'll have no one to talk to
But to tell the truth looking back now
We never talked that much anyhow
 
 
Chorus