Andrew Peterson – Lay Me Down (Guitar)

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Well I suppose you could lay me down to die in Illinois

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Bury me beneath the rows of corn

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Or in between the maple trees I climbed on as a boy

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Or in the land of Lincoln I was born

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Oh and I recall we rode the combines in the fall

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And there comes a time for gathering the harvest after all

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When you lay me down to die   I'll miss my boys   I'll miss my girls

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Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world

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You can lay me anywhere oh but just remember this

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When you lay me down to die   You'll lay me down to live

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Well I asked a girl to marry me on a dock out on a lake

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Her babies came to life in Tennessee

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And the music of the mountains is still keeping me awake

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Yeah but everything that rises falls asleep

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We are not alone  we are more than flesh and bone

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What is seen will pass away  what is not is goin' home

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When you lay me down to die   I'll miss my boys   I'll miss my girls

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Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world

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You can lay me anywhere oh but just remember this

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When you lay me down to die...

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I'll open up my eyes onto skies I've never known

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And the place where I belong and I realize

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His love is just another word for home

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Well I believe in the holy shores of uncreated light

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I believe there is power in the blood

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And all of the death that ever was if you set it next to life

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I believe it would barely fill a cup

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Yeah cause I believe there is power in the blood

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When you lay me down to die  so long boys   so long girls

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Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world

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You can lay me anywhere oh but just remember this

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When you lay me down to die  you'll lay me down to live