Let me wipe the tears from your eyes

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Let me wipe the tears from your eyes,

E A

oh, let me wipe the tears from your eyes !

E B7

Come over with me here, let them all disappear,

E A E

please, let me wipe the tears from your eyes !

E A

1. I won’t go it alone,

E A

no, I won’t go it alone.

E B7

Bring your heart to me here, leave the cold behind, my dear,

E A E

oh, I won’t go it alone.

+ instrumental = CHORUS

E A

Let me wipe the tears from your eyes,

E A

oh, let me wipe the tears from your eyes.

E B7

Home’s gone here, it’s gone along, gone along,

E A E

oh, let me wipe the tears from your eyes.

E A

2. It’s hard, hard enough for us both, dear,

E A

tough to be roughing it alone.

E B7

We’re rusty, we’re cut and we have been cleaned up,

E A E

let’s stay here together or be gone.

+ instrumental = CHORUS

E A

Oh, let me wipe the tears from your eyes,

E A

oh, let me wipe the tears from your eyes !

E B7

Come over with me here, let them all disappear,

E A E

please, let me wipe the tears from your eyes !

E B7

+ Come over with me here, let them all disappear,

E A E

please, let me wipe the tears from your eyes !

(Southern Tenant Folk Union)