Tonart: Bb major
Intro 1
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Gsus4
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Am
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Verse 1
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Met my old lover in the grocery store
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The snow was falling,
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Christmas Eve
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Stood up behind her in the frozen foods
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Gsus4
And I touched her arm sleeve
Verse 2
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She didn't recognize the face at first
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Gsus4
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But then her eyes flew open wide
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she spilled her purse
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And we laughed until we cried
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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We took her groceries
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Gsus4
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The food was totaled up and bagged
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Stood there lost in her embarrassment
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As the conversation dragged
Verse 4
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went to have
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ourselves a drink or two
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But couldn't find an open bar
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We grabbed a six- pack
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at the liquor store
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And we drank it in her car
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Verse 5
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We drank a toast to innocence
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We drank a toast
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to now
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We tried to reach bey
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But neither one knew how
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Verse 6
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She said she'd married her an architect
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Gsus4
Who kept her warm, safe and dry
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She would have liked to say
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she loved the man
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But she didn't like to lie
Verse 7
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I said that years had been a friend to her
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And that her eyes were just as blue
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But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I
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Saw doubt or gratitude
Verse 8
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She said she saw me in
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the record stores
That I must be doing well
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I said the audience was heavenly
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But the travel
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ing was hell
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Verse 9
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Absus4
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We drank a toast to innocence
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Gb
Absus4
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We drank a toast to now
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Absus4
We tried to reach bey
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But neither one knew how
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Verse 10
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We drank a toast to innocence
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We drank a toast
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to time
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Reliving in our eloquence
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Db
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Another old lang syn e
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Verse 11
Absus4
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The beers was empty
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and our tongues were tired
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Absus4
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And running out of things to say
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She gave a kiss to me as I got out
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And I watched her drive
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away
Verse 12
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Just for a moment I was
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back at school
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Absus4
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And felt that old familiar pain
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And as I turned to make
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my way back home
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The snow turned into rain...
Outro 1
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Faug
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