Misc Originals – Danny Hamilton - This Old Drawer (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

[Verse 1]
G                D          G              D
An old pack of luckies, a builder’s kit

G               D             G            D
Sittin’ right next to my first catcher’s mitt

G               D         Bm             D
Books with my name on I ain’t seen before

G                A             D
I found ‘em all in this old drawer

G            D         G          D
A talent show medal, says I’m a star

   G           D          G           D
A picture my mom took of my first car

  G                 D        Bm           D
It hasn’t been opened fifteen years or more

     G        A             D
I’m opening up this old drawer
[Chorus 1]
       A                    G          D
In a dresser that I must’ve left for dead

        A                        G     D
In the bedroom where I used to lay my head

         G          D    G           D
Full of old memories, tossed in a heap

        Bm          D         G               D
That I couldn’t let go but I couldn’t quite keep

     Em                                   Asus2
Of a life that seemed to have so much in store

      Em        Em/F#   G       A         D
But I guess I left it here in this old drawer
[Verse 2]
G                  D
Down in the bottom

     G               D
With dust for a coat

   G            D              G             D
A binder that holds all the letters she wrote

 G         D         Bm           D
Open it up and she fills up the room

      G               A           D
They smell just like her old perfume
[Chorus 2]
A                          G         D
Lord I can still see her standing there

A                     G           D
Tyin’ a braid in her long brown hair

            G        D    G          D
It’s these old memories tossed in a heap

        Bm          D         G              D
That I couldn’t let go but I couldn’t quite keep

     Em                              Asus2   A
Of a future that I just can’t see no more

   Em      Em/F#     G      A          D
I never should have opened this old drawer
[Bridge]
          Bm           G       D
This old drawer is a time machine

Bm                 G      D
Just like that I’m seventeen

C                 G            Bm               D
Drivin’ south at sunset, gotta have her home by ten

 Bm                    G       D
Livin’ through those perfect years

Bm                     G       D
But pretty soon I’m fightin’ tears

       C                G              A             D
Cause suddenly I’m livin’ through the losing her again
[Instrumental] D G G/F# Em G D [Chorus 3]
A                           G        D
This is the drawer where I left her ring

A                         G          D
It’s all I can do not to burn this thing

         G          D    G           D
Full of old memories I don’t wanna know

       Bm           D         G            D
And I couldn’t hold on but I couldn’t let go

            Em                           Asus2
And I don’t know how to walk on out that door

    F#m            Em
And never think about them anymore

      Em        Em/F#     G       A         D
So I guess I’ll leave em here in this old drawer