Donna Lee chords by Greg Paul

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