Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Verse 1:
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My favorite memories are some of my first
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Like a Sunday night meetin' at an old
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country church
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Sometimes my grandparents, they would come
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and take me
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To an old country church house on Gaylor
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Creek
Verse 2:
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We all knew our neighbors, everyone there
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was friends
And the preacher worked the timber like
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all of the men
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We were baptized in water, we were washed in
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the blood
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Don't remember much money but I recall lots
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of love
Chorus:
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That church was a long time ago, yeah I'm
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talkin' distance and years
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I'm not for certain that I could even get
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there from here
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But on nights when I'm sober, not blinded by
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all that I see
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My mind washes up at that church on Gaylor
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Creek
Instrumental:
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
Verse 3:
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So many barrooms, so many strangers
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Women and whiskey, so many dangers
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That old honky tonk highway, that's a wild
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horse to rope
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Son, I've seen enough neon to circle the
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globe
Chorus:
D MajorD
That church was a long time ago, yeah I'm
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talkin' distance and years
E MajorE
I'm not for certain that I could even get
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there from here
D MajorD
But on nights when I'm sober, not blinded by
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all that I see
E MajorE
My mind washes up at that church on Gaylor
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Creek