Grown men don't cry      (video)

 

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1. I pulled into the shopping center,

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    and saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother.

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    Like ice cream melting they embraced,

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    years of bad decisions running down her face.

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    All morning I'd been thinking my life's so hard,

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    and they wore everything they owned living in a car.

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    I wanted to tell 'em it would be OK,

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    but I just       got in my suburban and I,        I drove away.

 

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      I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

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     I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

 

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2. I keep having this dream about my old man,

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    I'm 10 years old and he's holding my hand.

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    We're talking on the front porch watching the sun go down,

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    but it was just a dream he was a slave to his job,

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    and he couldn't be around.

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    So many things I wanna say to him,

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    but I just     placed a rose on his grave and I talked to the wind.

 

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      I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

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     I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don’t cry.

 

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3. I'm sitting here with my kids and my wife,

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    and everything that I hold dear in my life.

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    We say grace and thank the Lord, got so much to be thankful for.

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    Then it's       up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says,

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    “I haven't had my story yet!

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    Everything weighing on my mind disappears just like that,

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    when she lifts her head off her pillow and says - - “I love you Dad”.

 

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      I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

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     I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

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      I don't know why they say grown men don't cry.

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      I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don’t cry.

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Tim McGraw)