INTRO: Am

            
Oh, my child
C
Thirty years today
    G
You came into my life
    Am
And everything changed




There's one thing I tried to teach you
                C
Girl, don't you waste your time
G
Come this September
          Am
You'll be somebody's wife


G                                   F
I won't paint a picture of what you want to see
Em                         Dm
Love is the harder times, take it from me


        F                     C        Am
I would run down the lane and into the night
F                       C          Am
Run so fast, I swear my feet would fly
F                    C              Am
Run from my babies, asleep in their beds
F                     C       Am
Run from my lover and my best friend
    G
And back again


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And all of the courage 
           C
I tried so hard to hold on to
G
Ever since that day
                     Am
You and your brother left for school



They say, just over that hill
    C
The fog rolled in
      G
And, "Come quick doctor
             Am
We think somebody's been killed"


    G                             F
And I have been a healer of other people's pain
      Em                                  Dm
Yeah, I know sometimes you don't like the ways I've changed


        F                       C       Am
But the smell of the world came into my lungs
    F                           C         Am
The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb
       F                        C         Am
And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest
   F                      C      Am
It felt so good to know I wasn't dead


        F                     C        Am
I would run down the lane and into the night
F                       C          Am
Run so fast, I swear my feet would fly
F                    C              Am
Run from my babies, asleep in their beds
F                     C       Am
Run from my lover and my best friend
G
Back again
         Am
Back again