Intro
D G/D
D G/D
[Verse 1]
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Now she didn't get off to a very good start.
G
And she tangled with love and he broke her heart.
D A A7
In a crumbling home had shown the childhood dreams were never real.
D D6
I came along, she was seventeen,
G
With the sun in her eyes and you know what I mean.
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She grew up too soon in the shade of my love, she taught me how to feel.
[Bridge 1]
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Loving each other was never enough.
Bm
She was watching me grow and she wrote it up
F#m Bm Em7 A7
In a book of life she gave to me the day the white ships sailed.
F#m Bm
Farewell my darling, au revoir.
Em7 Gm
I will pray every day for you, oh.
[Chorus 1]
D G
And she would stay alone while I'm away.
F#m Em7 A7
She wouldn't walk all alone in the city without me.
D G B
She would stay alone. She wouldn't play in the dark
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With this love inside........my heart.
[Verse 2]
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I came home on a summer night
G
And the wind in her hair and she looked just right
D Bm
There was never another kind of woman
Em A7
Could see right through my soul
D D6
Suddenly after the southern rain
G
She rode out of my life on the midnight train
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And I fell to the ground and the world became the last place I should be
[Bridge 2]
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Wandering angel I will wait for you
Bm
For the sound of your voice, the dream that you made
F#m Bm Em7 A7
The book of life you gave to me still keeps my flame alive
F#m Bm
Nobody knows which way I'm going
Em Gm
But I only search for you. Oh....
[Chorus 2]
D G
So won't you stay alone while I'm away
F#m Bm
If we both walk in the same direction
Em7 A7
Maybe my eyes will see you one day
D G B
Stay alone and may your dreams come to be
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All this love inside....of me
D G G/A D
Stay alone......Oh.....Ohhhhhhhhh