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G Am - F - G
C
1. I read a note my grandma wrote
back in nineteen twenty-three,
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G Am Dm
G
grandpa
kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. He said,
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G Am F
G C
"Boy, you might not
understand, but a long, long time ago,
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F G C
grandma's
daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your grandma so."
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G Am
- F G
C
2. We had
this crazy plan to meet and run
away together,
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get
married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
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Am F G
C
But nailed to the tree where
we were supposed to meet, instead,
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Am - F
G C
I found this letter, and this is what it said
:
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G C - F G C
If you get there before I do, don't
give up on me.
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Dm
G
I'll meet you when my chores are through, I don't know how long I'll be.
F G C - F
G Am
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling, wait and see !
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G E Am
And between now and then, till I see you again,
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- G C
I'll be loving you. Love, me !
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- Dm - G - C - F - C
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Am - F G
C
3. I read those words just
hours before my grandma passed away,
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in
the doorway of a church where me and grandpa stopped to pray.
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Am F
G C
I know I'd never seen him cry
in all my fifteen years,
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G Am
F
G C
but as he said these
words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.
F G C
- F G C
If you get there before I do,
don't give up on me.
F G Am Dm
G
I'll meet you when my chores are through, I don't know how long I'll be.
F G C - F G Am
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling, wait and see
!
F G E Am
And between now and then, till I see you again,
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I'll be loving you. Love, me !
F G E Am
+ Between now and then, till
I see you again,
F - G C
I'll be
loving you. Love, me !
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(Collin Raye)