Bill Anderson – This Land The Lord And Me (Guitar)

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Chords

Key G (use Cadd9 for some of the C chords below} [Intro] | G C | G | G C | G [Verse 1]
G      C      G                         C      G
I never  knew my mother and the closest that I came

      C                               G  C  G
Was a picture that my daddy showed to me

        D
When he held it in two calloused hands

    G                 C
And told me son don't cry

        G              D                G  C  G
This is how the Lord intended things to be
[Verse 2]
G                                    G7
Daddy told me mom grew weaker on the night that I was born

        C                              G    C  G
How she suffered and the doctor didn't come

         D
And when daddy told his Maker

           G                  C
Lord if it be Thy will please take her

        G                  D               G   C  G
How the good Lord took his wife and gave a son
[Verse 3]
     G                              G7
As a kid I watched my daddy carve a living from the land

          C                                G
Then when nighttime came he held me on his knee

    D                                       G          C
And prayed the Lord would let him live till I became a man

   G                D                 C   G
My daddy loved this land the Lord and me
[Chorus]
              G
Now I've been through a war where many died

C                 G
  And never got a scratch

     G
And enough of dad rubbed off on me

   A7              D
To know how I came back

    G
I'm living proof the man upstairs

      C                   G
Still lives and cares and answers
[Outro]
    C              G       C          G
The prayers of the man who loved this land

    D        C   G
The Lord and me