Before My Time chords by Johnny Cash

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I know that hearts were loving

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Long before I was here


And I'm not the first to ever cry

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In my bed or in my beer



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There were songs before there was radio

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Of love that stays and love that goes

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They were writing melancholy tunes

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And tearful words that rhyme

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Before my time   before my time




There were songs in old dusty books

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Of love that's always been


Sweet lovers in their glory

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Who are now gone with the wind



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Old fashion love words spoken then

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Keep coming back around again

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Nothings changed except the names

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Their love burns just like mine

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Before my time  before my time



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And in the dim of yesterday

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I can clearly see

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That flesh and blood cried out to someone

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As it does in me

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And there was some old song that said

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I love you till I die

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Before my time  before my time




But what the old time masters had

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Is what I feel for you


Love is love and doesn't change

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In a century or two



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If someway they had seen and knew

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How it would be for me and you

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They'd wish for love like yours

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And they would wish for love like mine

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