Help Me Understand chords by
Hank Williams
Jr.

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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A little girl prayed at

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the close of the day,

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Cause her daddy had gone far away,

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On her little face was a look of despair,

I stood there and listened,

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and I heard this prayer

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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

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to mention his name

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Lord take me and lead me

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and hold to my hand

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Oh heavenly father help me understand

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Verse 2

You know friends I wonder

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Just how many homes are broken tonight

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And just how many tears are shed

By some little word of anger

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That never should have been said

Verse 3

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I'd like to tell you a story

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Of a family I once knew.

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We'll call them Mary and William

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And their little daughter sue

Verse 4

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Now Mary was just a plain mother

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And bill was just a usual dad

And they had their little

family quarrels

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(like everybody else)

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But neither one really got mad

Verse 5

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Then one day something happened

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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 di vorce

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Now here were two

Verse 6

grown up people

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Who failed to use common sense

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They strengthened their own selfish pride

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At little Sue's expense

Verse 7

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You know she didn't ask to be brought to

This world

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To drift from pillar to post

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But a divorce never stops to consider

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The ones it hurts the most

Verse 8

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There'd be a lot more honest loving

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In this wicked ole world today

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If just a few parted parents

Verse 9

Could hear little sue say

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Take me and lead me and hold to my hand

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Oh heavenly father, help me understand

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