Kenny Chesney – Grandpa Told Me So (Ukulele)

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If you don’t get in the water, you’re never gonna learn to swim.

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He said that a snake is just as scared of you as you are of it.

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He could tell by the moon when the fish would bite,

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Seems there was nothing that he didn’t know,

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and as a kid I believed, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

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He talked Daddy into letting me have my first car.

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I thought I was really something till Becky Thompson broke my heart.

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That first taste of love nearly did me in, 

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Getting over her was slow,

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And I knew someday I would, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

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He said, life is made for you to live, 

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The best love is the love that you give,

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There’ll be times when you want to hold on, but you gotta let go.

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And I live by those words, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

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I promised him I wouldn’t cry when it was his time to leave.

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That’s the only promise I made him I couldn’t keep.

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He smiled from his bed and said we’ll meet again

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Somewhere down the road.

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And I believe, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

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Yeah, and I still believe, 

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Grandpa told me so.

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Grandpa told me so.

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I still believe.

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Grandpa told me so.

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I still believe.