Alma chords by Emily Rose

Chords with lyrics

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
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Alma we've been married sixty years and still I live
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For the sight of your smile, big and bright like a kid
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And to think it all began at a silly high school dance
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Like a portrait, I preserved it in my mind

♫ Verse 2:
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Alma, oh so steady, on the dock was supper time
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You gathered our loose pages, sowed us up a spine
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And our family, it grew. time, as it does, flew
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Do you remember, love me tender, love me true


♫ Verse 3:
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Alma, I A minorAm stubborn and I Do things on my own
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It's part of who I am, it's what I was shown
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I put these little notes all around the house
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This one is your toothbrush, and here is your nightgown
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  Won't you sit with me tonight, watch the sun Go down?


♫ Bridge:
C majorC G minorGm C majorC C
BB C majorC C G minorGm BB C majorC C

♫ Verse 4:
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Alma I've been hiding that my body's failing, too
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The children want to help, but that's not what we do
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You don't recognize me but my life I promised you
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And I won't leave your side


♫ Outro:
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Alma I've been thinking we could slip away
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Leave our broken bodies on the bed where they lay
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And we'll Go dancing once again under the stars
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That's when I first found your heart
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That's when you first stole my heart


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