Help Me Understand chords by David Allan Coe

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