Alice And Roy chords by Carrie Newcomer

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC  FF C majorC  FF C majorC  FF C majorC

Verse:
C majorC           FF
Roy squeezed her hand, Alice smiled at him
  G+G              FF    G+G  C majorC
The Senior Club Special is a lot food for them
                FF
They act like teenagers or the best of friends
    G+G                FF   G+G  C majorC
With a hundred-eighty years between the two of them

Verse:
             FF
Back during the war, at a wild country dance
  G+G               FF G+G    C majorC
He thought she'd ignore him, but he took the chance
              FF
And fifteen songs later he still held her close
   G+G             FF   G+G   C majorC
And a million dances since then, hasn't been enough

Chorus:
   FF
They wear love like lightning
   C majorC
It's something to see
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC     FF C majorC  FF C majorC
Sit up on their sleeves

Verse:
           FF
Alice nudges Roy and points with her spoon
   G+G           FF     G+G     C majorC
There sits two young lovers across the crowded room
                        FF
“You can tell by their look” she say's, “kinda giddy and flushed”
    G+G            FF   G+G     C majorC
And Roy grins wry and wicked and Alice smiled and blushed

Chorus:
   FF
They wear love like lightning
   C majorC
It's something to see
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC     FF C majorC  FF
Sit up on their sleeves

Verse:
  C majorC          FF
Roy gets a little misty, Alice pats his hand
   G+G              FF    G+G  C majorC
He's thinking 'bout the boy they lost in Vietnam
                  FF
And the girl he'd brought home and then left behind
  G+G                 FF    G+G    C majorC
And forty years later, she still sends cards at Christmastime

Chorus:
   FF
They wear love like lightning
   C majorC
It's something to see
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC     FF C majorC  FF C majorC
Sit up on their sleeves

Instrumental:
C majorC FF  G+G  FF G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  FF

Verse:
  C majorC                 FF
Roy said, "Remember, Alice, you almost burned your diary
     G+G            FF     G+G  C majorC
All those poems and love letters I sent from overseas?”
               FF
And Alice says, “I couldn't, even though I tried
   G+G                FF   G+G   C majorC
And I don't suppose the children will really be surprised”

Verse:
           FF
Roy touched her face, Alice smiled at him
   G+G               FF  G+G    C majorC
They bowed their heads a moment and whispered “Amen”
                  FF
If you look a little sideways, I'm not sure what it means
    G+G             FF   G+G    C majorC
I could swear it was an angel that passed her the cream

Chorus:
   FF
They wear love like lightning
   C majorC
It's something to see
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC
Sit up on their sleeves

Chorus:
   FF
They wear love like lightning
   C majorC
It's something to see
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC
Sit up on their sleeves
    G+G
And the years of their true love
        C majorC
Sit up on their sleeves

Outro:
FF C majorC  FF C majorC  FF C majorC