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- Date: 2/23/97; 12:41:22 AM
- From: GStrait1@aol.com
- Subject: Grandpa Told Me So by Kenny Chesney
-
- "Grandpa Told Me So"
- Written by Mark Alan Springer and James Dean Hicks
- Recorded by Kenny Chesney on BNA Records
- Trascribed by Tadd Haynes (GStrait1@aol.com)
-
- This is a beautiful song. If anyone else has any Kenny Chesney songs, please
- send them to me or post them. Thanks.
-
- Verse 1: Intro: G C(9)
- G
- C9
- If you don't get in the water, you're never gonna learn to swim
- G
- C9
- He said a snake is just as scared of you as you are of it.
- Em D
-
- He could tell by the moon when the fish would bite,
- G G/B C9
- Seems there was nothing that he didn't know,
- D G
-
- and as a kid I believed, 'cause Grandpa told me so.
-
- Verse 2:
- (Chords same as above.)
-
- He talked Daddy into letting me have my first car.
- I thought I was really something til Becky Thompson broke my heart.
- That first tast of love really did me in,
- Getting over her slow,
- And I knew someday I would, 'cause Grandpa told me so.
-
- Chorus:
- C G
- He said, life is made for you to live,
- D G
- the best love is the love that you give.
- C D
- Em
- There'll be times when you wanna hold on but you gotta let go.
- C D G
- And I live by those words, cause Grandpa told me so.
-
- Verse 3:
-
- I promised him I wouldn't cry when it was his time to leave.
- That's the only promise I made him I couldn't keep.
- He smiled from his bed and said we'll meet again,
- somewhere down the road.
- And I believe, cause Grandpa told me so.
-
- Repeat Chorus 2 x
-
- C D G C9
- Yeah and I still believe, Grandpa told me so.
- G
- Grandpa told me so.
- C9
- I still believe.