Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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G
Am
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F
Gsus4
C
Verse 1
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young man loses his life
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C
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They marked the shoulder with a cross
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Em
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An' his family gathers round
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E
Am
On a piece of Hal lowed
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ground
Gsus4
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Am
their loss
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F
As the tears fall from their eyes
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Am
There's one who'll al
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F
G
C
ways sympathise.
Verse 2
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living
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'Cause it's the living that are
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C
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C
left to carry on
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Am
An' all the an gels up in Heaven
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F
They're not grieving because
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they're gone
their faces
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'Cause they're in a better place than,
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Em
Dm
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C
mmm, baby, than, oh
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C
Am
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God only cries for the living
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C
that are so far from home.
Verse 3
Em
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It still makes me sad
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Am
When I think of my Grand- dad
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C
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I miss him each and every day
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But I know the time will come
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E
Am
Em
When my own
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Wonders why I went away
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Maybe we're not meant to understand
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Till we meet up in
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C
the Promised Land.
Verse 4
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living
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'Cause it's the living that are left
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Gsus4
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C
to carry on
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Am
And all the an gels up in Heaven
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F
They're not grieving because
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they're gone
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Dm
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oh, baby, than oh
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Am
God only cries for the living
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F
'Cause it's the living
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Am
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that are so far from home
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Yeah, we're so far from home,
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C
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