Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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A
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B
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Verse 1
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at the close of the day
F#
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Cause her daddy had gone far away
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A
On her little face was a look of despair
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and I heard this prayer
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B
mention his name
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and hold to my hand
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A
E
A
You know, friends, I wonder
and just how many tears are shed
family that I once knew.
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We'll just call them Mary and William,
and their little daughter Sue.
Now Mary was just a plain mother,
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and Bill, well, he was the usual dad.
B
G#m
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But then one day something happened.
Now here were two grown up people
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at little Sue's expense.
You know, she didn't ask
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to drift from pillar to post,
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but a divorce never stops
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in this wicked world today
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mention his name
G#m
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Lord take me and lead me
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and hold to my hand
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ChordsE A B F# G#m
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