Hank Snow – I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late (Guitar)

C                         G7      G7
One heart too many I have broken

G                          C     C
Love dreams that faded and died

C                       G       G
Too many teardrops have fallen

D7                  G7    G7
Too many vows cast aside

G                            C        C
Soft wedding bells should be ringing

    G7                 C      C
For us in the chapel tonight

         F                           C              A7
But this morning they tolled and her bright band of gold

      D                D7        G7     G7
Was returned with this message tonight

     C              G7        G
Your sweetheart has left us today

     G7         G         C    C
Heartbroken God took her away

     F                           C         A7
That silk gown of white, for her wedding tonight

    D                      G7   G7
She wore as they laid her away

           C          G7                G7
Though she died for a love all in vain

    G                            C     C
Her last words were callin' your name

     C                              F
As I walked to her grave, where the bluebonnets wave

  C            G7             C     C
I cried but my tears were too late

C                    F
 Tonight sweetheart, as I kneel here alone beside you

A                                 G7
And my tears stain the flowers on your grave

C                          F
In deep regret I think, of the heart that I have wounded

C                           G7                         C
Of the sorrow and grief and the life that I could have saved

                       F
 - Yes tonight darlin' you were to be my loving bride

C                                 G7
But all that I have left now is;  I bow to pray

C7              C               F
Is your ring, a picture and the sad message that they sent me

C                       G7               C
And this rose that I am taking from your grave

           C          G7                G7
Though she died for a love all in vain

    G                          C     C
Her last words were callin' my name

     C                              F
As I walked to her grave, where the bluebonnets wave

  C            G7             C     C
I cried but my tears were too late