Key: D major
Verse 1
of the puzzle of my past
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Em
I sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughs
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D
a little light in the dark
Verse 2
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A
And I think that it won't bore you
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For it's a tale that I've never told
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To anyone before you- - 'cause it's for you
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Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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The sun of sixteen sum mers
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had put halos in your hair
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If anything was in my head,
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twelve winters put it there
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A dollar an hour is what Mama paid
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you to come and mind her kids
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But no one could really pay you
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enough for what you really did
Verse 4
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Many happy things keep happening
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On my journey through this world
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that I will never understand
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To be the first to make you a woman
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But you were the one
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Verse 5
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You know I used to read myself
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to sleep when I went to bed
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I guess I was a dreamer then who
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lived inside my head
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But the nights that you came you talked of things,
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I found I had a friend
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You brought my fears of people
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to a sure and gentle end
Verse 6
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Many happy things keep happening
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And in many ways,
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that I will never understand
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To be the first to make you a wo man
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But you were the one
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Who made my mother's son a man
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Verse 7
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And said to me: "Please hold me"
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I did not know which way to go
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So I did just what you told
Verse 8
me "Please hold me"
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When I think about you now it's
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not that my memory fails
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There's just no need for graphic
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telling of all the details
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Let's just say you taught me something
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that brought me from my shell
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You gave to me that first sweet taste
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of the heaven here in this hell
Verse 9
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Em
Many happy things keep happening
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G
On my journey through this world
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C
Em
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that I will never understand
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D
A
To be the first to make you a wo man
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A
G
But you were the one
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G
Who made my mother's son a man
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