Donna Lee chords by Greg Paul

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Verse 1
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 (G major)  (C major)  (G major) Oh,  (C major)  (A major) 
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 (G major) I hope you
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 (D major) know we're gonna leave  (C major) 
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Should  (G major) hang around the side
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door every even (C major) ing  (G major) 
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Try to catch his eye as he was leav (C major) ing  (D major) 
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He  (G major) al ways took the time  (D major) to stop
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and  (C major) talk with her a while
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 (A major) She  (G major) spoke of love,
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but  (D major) all he did was smile  (C major) 
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 (G major) He said, go on home to
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 (C major) Mama Donnelly  (G major) 
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Friends are all we're  (C major) ever gonna be  (G major) 
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Please understand, I'm  (D major) a grown man,
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you're  (C major) just a child to me  (A major) 
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Go  (G major) on home to Mama  (D major) Donnelly  (C major)  (G major) 
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A year is not a long time on the  (C major) road
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 (D major) But  (G major) Donnelly was chan
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 (D major) ging and it  (C major) showed
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She  (D major) still  (G major) waited at the side  (D major) door
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like he'd  (C major) never been away
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 (A major) And it  (G major) wasn't quite so  (D major) easy now to say  (C major)  (G major) 
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Go on home to my  (C major) Madonna, Lee
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 (G major) That's the safest place  (C major) for you to be  (G major) 
Just seventeen,
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but lately  (D major) you've been  (C major) lookin' good to me  (A major) 
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Go  (G major) on home to my  (D major) Madonna,
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 (C major) Lee  (G major)  (A flat major)  (E flat major)  (D flat major)  (A flat major) 
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 (E flat major)  (D flat major) 
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 (A flat major) Those years down
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in Nashville  (E flat major) went so  (D flat major) slow
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 (E flat major) As  she  (A flat major) waited for those
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 (E flat major) letters that he wro (D flat major) te   (E flat major) 
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In the  (A flat major) drivin' rain, she  (E flat major) caught a plane
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One  (D flat major) cold December day
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 (B flat major) And  (A flat major) guessed the truth
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before  (E flat major) she heard him say  (D flat major) 
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 (A flat major) Go  on home to Mama  (D flat major) Donnelly,
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I  (A flat major) guess some things were nev
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 (D flat major) er  meant to  (A flat major) be
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Cause here I am a  (E flat major) man of mine,
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 (D flat major) for get about you and me  (B flat major) 
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Go  (A flat major) on  home to Mama  (E flat major) Donnelly,  (D flat major) 
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 (A flat major) go on home to  (D flat major) Mama Donnelly
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 (A flat major) I guess some things were
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 (D flat major) nev er meant to be  (A flat major) 
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Cause here I am, a  (E flat major) mar ried man,
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for (D flat major) get about you and me  (B flat major) 
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Go  (A flat major) on  home to my  (E flat major) Madonna Lee  (D flat major) 
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 (A flat major) Cause here I am, a  (E flat major) married man,
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 (D flat major) for get about you and me  (B flat major) 
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Go  (A flat major) on  home to my  (E flat major) Madonna Lee  (D flat major) you