A Song For Our Grandfathers

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[Intro]

G D A x2

[Verse 1]
G             D              A
Been a long time, in a low place
G              D            A
Surrounded by what I have made
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Need to get away
D    A
Get away from what relates
              G
And what was done

     D              A
Cuz it's all over now

 G               D        A
Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf
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And carve my name
       D                     A
In the lines, there's not a trace
G                D                   A
I hear the ghost whisper, and those old eyes watching me
           G
But I feel safe...

     D                  A
Grandfather looking over me

G  D

[Chorus]
  A
He said:
                G
"Don't make them wait
      D          A     G      D     A
Gotta go a long way
         G     D
Let's be brave
     A
Don't make them wait

Nah, don't make them wait"

G  D  A x4

[Verse 2]
G          D       A
I sat down, with a coffee on my bent knee
            G         D                   A
Looking out, at the burnt land, looking back at me
G                 D
These used to be green crops
      A
And high on a summer breeze
        G                  D                 A
Now it's fallow fields and clear-cut barren weeds
G                   D
They said that if I stared
    A
The abyss would stare back at me

So I did...
G        D                    A
And I felt it slowly creep in me
G              D           A
Save for the smoke, that danced when I took a drag
   G                        D                   A
It made me think about the way it all came to be...


Grandmama watching over me

G  D

[Chorus]
     A
And she said
                      G     D
"Don't make them wait
                A     G     D     A
Gotta go a long way
         G      D              A
Let's be brave, show them the way

Nah, don't make them wait"


G     D     A

[Bridge]
                         G  D  A
Don't make them wait, nah
                     G   D  A
Don't make them wait


[Outro]
G               D
I hear the ghost whisper
            A
And those old eyes watching me
           G      D      A
But I feel safe
       G
I feel safe