Melancholy Child chords by Pam Tillis

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:

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Verse 1:
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A baby with a baby just barely seventeen
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My mother mourned her innocence while she bounced me on her knee
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A daddy on the road added to her tears and trials
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Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child

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Verse 2:
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The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song
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My mother's lullaby that train that ran behind our home
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A whippoorwill on a window sill - It should have made me smile
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But everything sounds lonesome to a melancholy child

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Chorus:
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Now a restless blood runs in our family
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I thought I could out run the emptiness inside of me
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So I went a little crazy, went a little wild
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Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child

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Verse 3:
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I met a kind and gentle man who thinks the world of me
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And when he looks my way it is a woman that he sees
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But when I can't explain to him the tears that fill my eyes
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He takes me in his arms and rocks his melancholy child

Chorus:
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You take a black Irish temper and some solemn Cherokee
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A Southern sense of humour and you got someone like me
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There are thorns on every rose to this I'm reconciled
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They're just a little sharper to a melancholy child

Outro:
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And in my own babe's eyes I see the signs of melancholy      child
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Heaven help us all, another melancholy child

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(repeat)