Key: A major
Verse 1
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Dear Mr. Potter
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You held me when I was only a year
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My father, for all his saving grace
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she fell in love with a black man in the sixties
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Bb
year down in Mississippi
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My dear mother has passed away
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I wish I could tell you it was a lie
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she fell in love with a black man in the sixties
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Oh my mother, she met him every year
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Gm
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Now I know why she cried during
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"Same Time Next Year"
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And I know when she died,
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she'd have had you near
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But her peace wasn't peaceful as most
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No funeral, no holy ghost
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No her peace wasn't peaceful as most
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No funeral, no holy ghost
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You see my mother,
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she fell in love with a black man in the sixties
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year down in Mississippi
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And love makes you family
Oh my mother, she fell in love with a black
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man in the sixties
Em
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she met him every year down in Mississippi
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And love makes you family
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Oh my mother
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Yes my mother
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Oh my mother
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And love makes you family
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Oh my mother
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Em
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Yes my mother
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Oh my mother, yah
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And love makes you family
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