Key: C major
Verse 1
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I read a note my grand
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ma wrote back in 1923
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Grandpa kept it in his coat,
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He said, boy, you might not understand
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But a long, long time ago
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Grandma's daddy didn't like me none
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But I loved your grandma so
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We had this crazy plan to meet
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And run away together
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Get married in the first town
we came to
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and lived forever
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But nailed to the tree
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where we were supposed to meet instead
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I found this letter
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and this is what it said
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If you get there before I do,
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don't give up on me
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I'll meet you when my chores are through,
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I don't know how long I'll be
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But I'm not gonna let you down,
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darling wait and see
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And between now and then,
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until I see you again
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I'll be loving you, love me
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I read those words just hours
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before my grandma passed away
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In the doorway of a church
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where me and Grandpa stopped to pray
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I know I've never seen him cry
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in all my fifteen years
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But as he said those words to her,
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his eyes filled up with tears
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If you get there before I do,
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don't give up on me
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I'll meet you when my chores are through,
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I don't know how long I'll be
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But I'm not gonna let you down,
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darling wait and see
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And between now and then,
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until I see you again,
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I'll be loving you, love me
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until I see you again,
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I'll be loving you, love me
You
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