George Strait – The Nerve (Guitar)

[Intro]
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I'm glad I had the nerve to talk to you that day

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I could just as easily have let you get away

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In that crowded airport far from my home town

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If I had lost my courage then you wouldn't be around

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I'm glad I had the nerve

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And I'm glad he had the nerve to get down on his knees

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And say I bought this ring for you won't you wear it please

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My daddy sure touched something in my momma's heart somehow.

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If he hadn't I sure wouldn't be here with you now

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I'm glad he had the nerve

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Or I never would have lived like this

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Or learned like this

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Or laughed like this

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Or loved like this

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I'm glad he had the nerve to sail across the sea

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My great-grandaddy's great-grandpa in eighteen thirty-three

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He met an Indian maiden in the Smoky Mountain mist

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If they hadn't crossed that line I would not exist

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I'm glad they had the nerve

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And I'm glad He had the nerve while staring into space

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To give this universe a time and a place

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With one tiny atom or an Adam and an Eve

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However you look at it whatever you believe

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I'm glad He had the nerve

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Or we never would have lived like this

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Or learned like this

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Or laughed like this

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Or loved like this

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Thank God He had the nerve

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And I'm glad I had the nerve to talk to you that day