A Wedding In Connecticut chords by Ron Pope

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Verse 1
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There was a pretty girl
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From some small suburb of Dallas
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And she came up to New York  with a dream
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In the confusion and the noise
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All of her beauty and her poise
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Turned gray like snow be
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side the city street
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She met a boy named Steven
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They made love in his apartment
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In a second story walk up out in Queens
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And the thing she hoped to find
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Beneath him on  that August night
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Was the farthest thing from her
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As she dressed to leave

Verse 2

So she hides her eyes

Says a slow goodbye

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Swears by the morning light she'll be fine

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Verse 3
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At a wedding in Connecticut
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The mother of the bride
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Daydreams about her hus
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band  who's just passed
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She stands to give a toast
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She says 'the only thing I know
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Is when you find a love that's worth it,
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make it last'
So she chokes back to tears
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Speaks of all her daughter's years
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Thirty Christmases of memor
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ies   that she keeps
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And the speech was sad and sweet
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She kisses guests as they all leave
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Then heads up to her
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hotel room to weep

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So she bides her time

And says a slow goodbye

Swears by the morning

light she'll be fine

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Yea, she hides her eyes

And though it's hard some nights

She'd take her own sweet time,

she'll be fine

Verse 6
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who spent twenty years
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Working in an auto plant
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Gets laid off on    a Thursday af ternoon
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And he grips the 45
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That rests in the glove
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box when he drives
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Then he puts the gun away
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And wonders what to do
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So he parks in his driveway
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And head against the steel meal
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Tries to think of what to tell his wife
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And in the kitchen he explains
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And swears they'll be okay
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And she says 'you're the
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only thing I need in this life'