Twenty Years Ago chords by
Montgomery Gentry

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Key: D major•

Intro 1

D

D

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G

G

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Bm

Bm

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G

G

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Bm

Bm

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G

G

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D

D

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G

G

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D

D

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Verse 1

D

D

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I was

at that smart ass time of my life

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G

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D

D

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G

G

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Where id pick a fight just to pick a fight

D

D

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If he said black, I said white

If he took one side I took the other side

G

G

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The dinner table we sat around

Was more like a battleground

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D

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And I lost more times than I won

Verse 2

I would of learned later on

Bm

Bm

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G

G

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That he was always preaching

A

A

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Bm

Bm

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bout his past

G

G

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I just kept screaming" Come on,

A

A

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dad!

That was twenty years ago

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D

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Em

Em

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You don't know me at all!

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G

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Trying to talk to you is like

A

A

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talking to the wall

D

D

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Yeah, you gave me my life,

Em

Em

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but its my life to live

D

D

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G

G

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Maybe I don't wanna live it like you did,

A

A

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G

G

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Twenty years ago"

Verse 3

D

D

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G

G

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He was built with blue collar

sweat and blood

Squared jaw and a crew cut

D

D

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A purple heart, a Viet Vet.

He'd tell you every chance he'd get

G

G

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Always running down my rock n' roll,

My friends, my hair, my clothes.

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D

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But one night it got out of control

And right there we came to blows

Bm

Bm

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G

G

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A

A

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And that was just enough to get me gone

Bm

Bm

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G

G

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I couldn't wait to prove

A

A

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him wrong!

Verse 4

D

D

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Twenty years ago

Em

Em

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Struck out on my own

G

G

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Couldn't tell me nothing

A

A

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That I didn't already know

D

D

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Later I was on my way

Em

Em

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To what the hell did I care

D

D

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My old man and his gray hair

G

G

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Thought about the road I chose

A

A

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Twenty years ago

Verse 5

Em

Em

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Bm

Bm

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Em

Em

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Bm

Bm

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"Well

Em

Em

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I left as fast

as the leaves fell that autumn

Bm

Bm

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I never looked back and I

never once called him

Em

Em

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But every time I talked to momma

Bm

Bm

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I wondered if he was there,or if

he even cared

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Em

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I figured I walked out of him and the

Bm

Bm

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course of our love had run

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G

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Em

Em

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Momma said 'no,no, you listen to me son,

hes a stubborn man and he won't give in.

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Bm

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He believes what he believes,

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G

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D

D

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well you're just like him'

C

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Well I could tell by her voice there

was something wrong

She broke down,

and said he ain't got long

So I caught the next plane home,

Thought about all the years gone

Had my pride that I let so much time go by

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G

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I ran up those stairs and stood

Am

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by his bed

And I cried"

Verse 6

D

D

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Twenty years ago

Em

Em

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Thought I knew it all

G

G

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But trying to talk to me

A

A

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Was like talking to a wall

D

D

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I thought I was a man

Em

Em

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Acting like I did

D

D

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But all I want right now

G

G

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Em

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Is just to be your kid

D

D

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Just before my dad gave up the ghost

G

G

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Em

Em

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D

D

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G

G

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He took my hand and said "son let it go,

A

A

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G

G

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that was twenty years ago"

Twenty years ago

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