Lilly - Billy Walker

Key: F Intro: C F C F Verse 1: C Em When Lilly left home for the first time C F She only took a few of her clothes G She left her stuffed dog and her year books C All her letters and her favorite faded clothes G She said that she needed more freedom F Daddy couldn't understand why C Am I thought my little girl wasn't ready for the world D G C Till it smiled and said she just had to try

Chorus 1: Am F Lilly you're not ready C Please don't say goodbye Verse 2: Em When Lilly left home the next time C F She took everything but her rose G And rented herself an apartment C Where for reasons still that nobody knows C A fire broke out and it trapped her F Nobody heard Lilly cry C Am Overcome with the smoke the way the doctors told D G C You could tell it was something Lilly might die Chorus 2: Am F C Lilly you're not ready please don't say goodbye A#7 F C There's so much waiting for you to come home for A#7 F C We'll fix up your room and let you be free as a breeze A#7 F C I'll carry you home oh Lilly lean on my shoulder A#7 F C Come home Lilly please oh Lilly please [Solo] C Am F C Verse 3: C Em When Lilly left home for the last time C F She only took the clothes she had on G We packed her things into boxes C Wondering why in heaven she was really gone C When we noticed a rose was missing F And no one in the world can say how C Am It was found the next day out where Lilly laid D G C And it's Lilly's rose that grows there now Chorus 3: F C Lilly you were ready oh Lilly goodbye