The Best Years Of My Life chords by Loretta Lynn

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Verse 1
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 (C major) Thank goodness for the curtains that I draped
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around the windows in my room  (G major) 
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They keep  (F major) the sun from shining through so
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 (G major) it won't find me here in all my gloom  (C major) 
My eyes are red and swollen from
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the tears that baby's leaving me as  (G major) left
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I  (F major) haven't got the heart to go out
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 (G major) to face the world alone just  (C major) yet
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God knows I'm just as empty as the closet where he used to hang his clothes  (G major) 
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And  (F major) passing by that mirror I see  (G major) ten years of my life just come and go  (C major) 
The radio is playing some old song
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that baby used to sing to me  (G major) 
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And  (F major) in between my heartbeats Lord
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I think  (G major) about the way it used to be  (C major) 
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I tied the be (F major) st years of my
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 (G major) life around his  (C major) love
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Passing my world  (F major) to his and
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 (G major) gave my heart the cause  (C major) 
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I be (F major) lieved him everything is sad
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I thought that how it  (C major) was
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 (G major) I tied the best years of
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my life around his  (C major) love

Verse 2
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I  (C major) crossed the bridge of memory
Where the grass was green and
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his sweet dream was  (G major) mine
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But  (F major) all about is over now he's broken  (G major) all those
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precious ties that bind  (C major)  (F major)  (G major)  (C major)  (F major)  (G major)  (C major)  (F major) 
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 (C major) 
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 (G major) I tied the best years of my life