Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse:
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This is how I tell it
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O' but it's long
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One Sunday morning
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O' One son is gone
🎸 Interlude:
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🎸 Verse 2:
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Against the weather dawning
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Over the sea
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My father said what I had become
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No one should be
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🎸 Verse 3:
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Outside I look lived in
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Like the bones in a shrine
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How am I forgiven
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O' I'll give it time
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🎸 Verse 4:
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This I learned without warning
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Holding my brow
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In time we thought I would kill him
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O' but I didn't know how
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🎸 Verse 5:
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I said it's your God I don't believe in
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No your Bible can't be true
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Knocked down by the long lie
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He cried I fear what waits for you
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🎸 Verse 6:
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I can hear those bells
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Spoken and gone
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I feel relief I feel well
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Now he knows he was wrong
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🎸 Verse 7:
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Ring 'em cold for my father
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Frozen underground
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Jesus I wouldn't bother
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He belongs to me now
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🎸 Verse 8:
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Something sad keeps moving
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So I wandered around
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I fell in love with the burden
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Holding me down
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🎸 Verse 9:
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Bless my mind I miss
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Being told how to live
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What I learned without knowing
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How much more I owe than I can give
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🎸 Verse 10:
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This is how I tell it
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O' but it's long
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One Sunday morning
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One son is gone
🎸 Outro:
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