intro: A D C A X2

verse 1:

When I gave you my heart
It was not what you wanted

Now the walls say your name
And the pictures are haunted
Does my ring burn your finger
Did my love weigh you down
Was a promise too much
To keep around

Break: A C D A

verse 2:

I remember your words
And I can't keep from crying

I could never believe
That your kisses were lying
Was there something from the past
Buried in a shallow grave
Did you think that it was too
far gone to save

Break: A D C A X2

Bridge:

Please tell me baby
Please tell me now
You say that I should just go on
Now please tell me how

verse 3:
Now it’s just me and the night
And I'm so broken hearted

I just wait in the dark here
For my dearly departed
Did my ring burn your finger
Did my love weigh you down
Was a promise to much
To keep around

Ending: A D C A X3

I play the A as XX2255 to get a mandolin effect

INTRO: Asus2 Am C D G C Em G D G

Things around here haven’t changed much
It’s all pretty much the same stuff, day after day
The only thing that keeps me going
Seems to be our baby girl I’m trying to raise

She’s my life my morning angel
Always seems to find the rainbow after the rain
But lately she’s so busy growing
I don’t even thinks she knows you’ve gone away

CHORUS:
She finally learned to say goodbye
She’s sleeping through the night
She don’t wake up crying
And she’s walking on her own
She don’t need no one holding to her hand
And I hate to admit, she’s stronger than I am

She ain’t cracking under pressure
First one step and then another, she goes along
And if she falls and skins her knee
She cries awhile and then smiles at me and just goes on

So many things that she can teach me
Full of life and so completely innocent
She still says she loves her daddy
Goes on just like nothing happened, forgives and forgets

CHORUS:
She finally learned to say goodbye
She’s sleeping through the night
She don’t wake up crying
And she’s walking on her own
She don’t need no one holding to her hand
And I hate to admit, she’s stronger than I am
She’s just like her old man
N.C. G C G
Stronger than I am

INTRO: C G/E G F Dm7 Em7 F G C ~ C

Staring out the window at the sinking sun
G C ~ C
Another painful day is done
If I could convince myself I was over you now
I’d find a way to go on somehow_____

CHORUS:
F G C ~ C
But the pain just grows stronger every day
F ~ G C ~ F
I think of you and I’m on my way
G C ~ F ~
Down memory lane with your hand in mine
Guess I’m just not the healing kind

INTERLUDE: C G/E G F Dm7 Em7 F G Em7 F C ~ C

Another December and the cold winds blow
G C ~ C
And nights without you are so long
I stare at our picture through the firelight’s glow
And where you are right now, I just don’t know____

CHORUS:
F G C ~ C
And the pain just grows stronger every day
F ~ G C ~ F
I think of you and I’m on my way
G C ~ F ~
Down memory lane with your hand in mine
Guess I’m just not the healing kind______
Guess I’m just not the healing kind

OUTRO: C G/E G F Dm7 Em7 F G Em7 F G C

“I Feel like I’m forgetting something”

4/4 key of Eb – tuning Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

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|-9-7—7S6-6S5-5-|-4-4S2-2———–|———-|
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