Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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F#m
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Esus4
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Verse 1
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young man loses his life
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They marked the shoulder with a cross
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An' his family gathers round
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On a piece of Hal lowed
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ground
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their loss
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As the tears fall from their eyes
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There's one who'll al
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ways sympathise.
Verse 2
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living
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'Cause it's the living that are
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left to carry on
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An' all the an gels up in Heaven
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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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mmm, baby, than, oh
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God only cries for the living
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that are so far from home.
Verse 3
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It still makes me sad
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When I think of my Grand- dad
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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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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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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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to carry on
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And all the an gels up in Heaven
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They're not grieving because
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they're gone
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oh, baby, than oh
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God only cries for the living
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'Cause it's the living
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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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