Baylee chords by Wade Forster

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: F

* - One Strum

Intro:


D*  G*


Verse 1:
D*
Johnny was a football star
    G*
And he went out and wrote off his car
Bm*                        G*
With his girlfriend in the driveway
D*
Baylee's mum didn't trust that boy
G*
'Cause he was born in Illinois
Bm*                                G
“Them northern boys, they drive me crazy”
D

Johnny was gonna be a mountaineer
G
And move away far from here
Bm                       G
Wanted to play for Indianapolis
D
Johnny told her years before
G
If he ever met Heaven’s door
Bm               G
“Remember what I told you”


Chorus:
D
Baylee, don’t you cry for me
G
You’ll find better love, you’ll see
Bm                           G    A
Save those tears for someone else
D
The days will fly on by
    G
And you’ll forget about me in time
Bm                          G   A
I hope that life treats you well
          Bm          A
Don’t you cry for me
D
Baylee


Break:
D  G
D  G  A


Verse 2:
D
Elroy was a hell-bent cowboy
G
Soldier who never got a deploy
Bm                     G
Hung up bad in the bareback
D
Baylee was in the nosebleed stands
G
Watching medic’s trembling hands
Bm                   G
As they started on CPR
D*
She ran down and held him close
G*
Like the first time she overdosed
Bm*                                G*
Trying to get the hang-ups off her mind
D*
As the white blanket seemed to stay
G*
“Sorry, ma’am, he’s passed away”
Bm*                        G     A
She remembers those crying times



Chorus:
D
Baylee, don’t you cry for me
G
You’ll find better love, you’ll see
Bm                           G    A
Save those tears for someone else
D
The days will fly on by
    G
And you’ll forget about me in time
Bm                          G   A
I hope that life treats you well
          Bm          A
Don’t you cry for me
D
Baylee


Break:
D  G
D  G  A


Verse 3:
D
She’d take another swig at sixty-four
G
Like she did twenty years before
Bm                          G
After the last one left her broken
D
And they say life’s a gift, you swear
G
But she’s lost more than the country fair
Bm                                   G
She learned that love just ain’t her life
D
So to her two kids she said
G
Lying on her double-wide trailer deathbed
Bm                                 G     A
“Hope you never have to live these words”


Chorus:
D
Baylee, don’t you cry for me
G
You’ll find better love, you’ll see
Bm                           G    A
Save those tears for someone else
D
The days will fly on by
    G
And you’ll forget about me in time
Bm                          G   A
I hope that life treats you well
          Bm          Bm  A
Don’t you cry for me
Bm  A  D
        Baylee
D  G
D  G  A