Fourteen Days chords by
Steve Goodman

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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When Johnny got the letter

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It had no return address

But he recognized the writing

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And he didn't have to guess

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And the postmark said Seattle

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Just a thousand miles away

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And so he put it in the drawer

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For fourteen days

Verse 2

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Every night he'd take that envelope

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Hold it up to the light

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But he never tore it open

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to see what lay inside

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He remembered how it hurt

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The night she turned and walked away

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So he kept the letter sealed

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For fourteen days

Verse 3

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Fourteen days it lay unopened

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Fourteen days it stayed unread

Fourteen nights he dreamed about her

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In what used to be their bed

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Though his heart and soul

were achin'

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Johnny's pride got in the way

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And he kept the letter sealed

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For fourteen days

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Verse 4

Then one night he couldn't stand it

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Johnny took it from the drawer

He read the words she'd sent to him

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Just two short weeks before

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The tears fell hard as Johnny read

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The words she had to say

"Boy I'm coming home to

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you in fourteen days"

Verse 5

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"Dear John: I know I hurt you,

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but I pray that you'll forgive

And if you don't take me back again,

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then, I don't want to live

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If you're there when I step off the plane

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Then I'll be yours, always

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I arrive at four p.m. in four

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teen days."

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Verse 6

Johnny raced out to the airport

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On the chance that she might wait

But the terminal was empty

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And he knew he was too late

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He cursed himself for letting his

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one true love slip away

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For a letter that he held

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for fourteen days

Verse 7

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Fourteen days it lay unopen

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Fourteen days it stayed unread

Fourteen nights he dreamed about her

And the good times that

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C#m

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they had

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And Johnny knew he'd lost her

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And there was nothing left to say

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He tore up the note he'd held

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for fourteen days

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Verse 8

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Now the next day in Seattle

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The morning headline read

"Another Jane Doe Suicide - Young

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Girl Lying Dead."

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Scrawled upon the crumpled piece

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of paper where she lay

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"I'm coming home to you

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in fourteen days."

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