Misc Originals – David Metzler - Lay Down Next To Me (Guitar)

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Raised the son of a proper man, didn’t take no talking back

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Taught me to carry my burdens on my back

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Grandma was the righteous one, had her eyes on them pearly gates.

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Took me to church to learn to pray, but it didn’t take.

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But mama put me on the track, she said, Keep lookin forward and don’t look back

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It’ll set you free

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And when she laid me down Oh she laid me down and took my burdens from me

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And when she laid me down she’d lay down right next to me

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Met my true love in a bar one night while I was drowning my sorrows in drink

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She had this way of laughin’ at life sort of made you think.

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We spoke of love both found and lost, spoke of sorrow pain and strife

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All the twists and turns of this crazy life

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And as the sunlight kissed the sky, I knew I’d found a friend for life;

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The one for me

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And when she laid me down Oh she laid me down and took my burdens from me

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And when she laid me down she’d lay down right next to me

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Spent my life as a family man, chasin the simpler pleasures of life

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Raisin kids and just trying to get by

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Not gonna die a wealthy man, ain’t gonna see no Nobel prize

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But there’s nothing worth more than the gleam in my grandkids eyes.

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And as I watch the sun go down, I’m warm in the glow of the love I’ve found

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I guess that’ll do.

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So when you lay me down, Please lay me down and take my burdens from me

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And when you lay me down, won’t you lay down right next to me. 

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Oh lay me down, won’t you lay me down and take my burdens from me

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Lay me down oh Lay me down and give me peace.