Help Me Understand chords by
David Allan Coe

N/A

Key: D major•

Verse 1
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D D 
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A  little girl prayed at
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the close of the day
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Because her daddy had went far away
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G G 
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On her little face was a look of despair
I stood there and listened,
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D D 
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and I  heard this
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My mommy says daddy has
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brought us to shame
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And I'm never no more to
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mention his name
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Lord, take me and lead me
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and hold to my hand.
Oh, Heavenly Father,
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help me understand.
You know, friends out there,
I wonder how many broken homes
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there are tonight.
And how many tears are shed
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by some little word of anger
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That never should have been said
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Well, I'd like to tell you a story
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It's a story about a  family that I once knew
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Well, I just call them Mary and William
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And their little daughter Sue
Now Mary, she was just a plain
old housewife and mother,
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and Bill, I guess he was
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just a usual dad.
And they had their family quarrels
like everyone else,
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but neither one ever got real mad.
And then one day, something happened.
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Oh, it was nothing of course,
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but one word led to another,
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and the last word led to a divorce.
Now, here was two grown -up people
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who failed to use common sense,
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and  they strengthened
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and their own selfish pride
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at little Sue's expense.
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A A 
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Now, she didn't ask to be
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brought in to this world,
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to drift from pillar to post,
but a divorce never seems to stop
and consider the ones that
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it hurts the most.
Why, you know,
I bet there'd be a lot less divorces
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in this old world today
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if just a few parents could
hear that little child say,
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