It Takes A Heap Of Living chords by
Walter Brennan

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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I remember many years
G G 
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D D 
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ago when I was just lad
Livin' in the country with
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my moma and my dad
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It seems I can see 'em in that
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D D 
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faded yellow light
Moma sowin' on some buttons
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and daddy puffin' on his pipe.

Verse 2
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I can here my mother hummin' in
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a voice so sweet an d low
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Keepin' time with that old rocker
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C C 
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as she's rockin' to and fro
With us youngin's gathered around her,
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drowsey little sleepy heads
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Cryin' tell us another story
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before you put us in to bed.

Verse 3
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And moma would stop a- rockin'
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and stories she would tell
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Stories from the family bible were
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the ones she knowed so well.
Of a baby in a manger near
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a town called Bethlehem
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G G 
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About David and Goliath and the
shepard with his lands.
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Verse 4
Well, it takes a heap of living,
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lots of take and lots givin'
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D D 
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G G 
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Lord, It  takes a heap of livin' just
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to make a house a home
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Lots of work and lots of play and
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an awful lot of prayin'
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Lord, it takes a heap of livin' just to make
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a house a home.

Interlude 1

Verse 5

- - - Instrumental - - -

Verse 6
Well, it takes a heap of living,
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lots of take and lots givin'
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Lord, It takes a heap of livin' just
G G 
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to make a house a home
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Lots of work and lots of play and
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an awful lot of prayin'
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Lord, it takes a heap of livin' just
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C C 
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to make a house a  home.

Interlude 2

Verse 7
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Now I sit and turn the pages
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of this old family book
My mind goes back to childhood and
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the tears fall where I look
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All the family names are listed here
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most of 'em have passed away
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And Lord, I pray the family circle
will be together some day.

Verse 8
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Well, it takes a heap of living,
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E E 
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lots of take and lots givin'
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Lord, It takes a heap of livin' just
to make a house a home
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A A 
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Lots of work and lots of play and
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an awful lot of prayin'
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D D 
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Lord, it takes a heap of livin' just
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to make a house a home.

Verse 9

(Takes a heap of livin' just to make

a house a home...)

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