Chords with lyrics
Intro:
A minorAm
Oh, my child
C majorC
Thirty years today
G+G
You came into my life
A minorAm
And everything changed
There's one thing I tried to teach you
C majorC
Girl, don't you waste your time
G+G
Come this September
A minorAm
You'll be somebody's wife
G+G FF
I won't paint a picture of what you want to see
E minorEm DmDm
Love is the harder times, take it from me
FF C majorC A minorAm
I would run down the lane and into the night
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run so fast
I swear my feet would fly
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run from my babies, asleep in their beds
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run from my lover and my best friend
G+G
And back again
Instrumental: A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
And all of the courage
C majorC
I tried so hard to hold on to
G+G
Ever since that day
A minorAm
You and your brother left for school
They say, just over that hill
C majorC
The fog rolled in
G+G
And, "Come quick doctor
A minorAm
We think somebody's been killed"
G+G FF
And I have been a healer of other people's pain
E minorEm DmDm
Yeah
I know sometimes you don't like the ways I've changed
FF C majorC A minorAm
But the smell of the world came into my lungs
FF C majorC A minorAm
The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb
FF C majorC A minorAm
And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest
FF C majorC A minorAm
It felt so good to know I wasn't dead
FF C majorC A minorAm
I would run down the lane and into the night
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run so fast
I swear my feet would fly
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run from my babies, asleep in their beds
FF C majorC A minorAm
Run from my lover and my best friend
G+G
Back again
A minorAm
Back again
OUTRO: A minorAm