Flowers chords by Casey Black

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Someone sent my momma
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flowers on the day that I was born
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Daddy put'em on a table 'neath
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the window
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They were dead and spread before
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I even knew I was alive
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But I think about those flowers
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now that I  am grown

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Verse 2
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There were lilies on the altar when I
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knelt down for my first communion
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'Here, little kid,
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this is the body and blood of the Christ'
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cnd the wildflowers whipped past
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on the forty out to California
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I was twenty- one years old
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making up my own mind
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Verse 3
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It's a seed in the ground
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Somehow it finds its way out
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The more it reaches for light
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the more its beauty grows
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Then it's back to the ground

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Verse 4
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I held a dozen when I asked
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Leslie to be my wife
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They were drying on the wall when
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she gave the ring back
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For a season I believed I would
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never feel the sunshine again
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But there's a pretty girl beside
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me with a little in her laugh
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Verse 5
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It's a seed in the ground
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Somehow it finds its way out
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The more it reaches for light
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the more its beauty grows
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Then it's back to the ground it goes
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Verse 6
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I   spread my petals out in
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the air light of possibility
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I   shoot my roots down just as
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deep as the earth will let me
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I think the point is to grow tall
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but always stay green
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cnd to bow when the colors
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of fall come
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Verse 7
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Couple hundred flowers on
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the day of my funeral
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Friends spread my ashes
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out and they cry
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For awhile I float up high in the
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clouds beneath the sunshine
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Then I settle in a garden
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out in the countryside
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Verse 8
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It's a seed in the ground
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Somehow it finds its way out
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The more it reaches for light the
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more its beauty grows
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Then it's back to the ground
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it goes