Chords for Kalob Griffin, "The Terrifying Truth About Getting Too Old," // GemsOnVHS™

_ _ _ _ _ [N] Terrifying truth about getting too old.
_ I lived with my grandma while she was
having Alzheimer's, dementia.
_ _ _ Eventually it got too bad so we had to put her in a
home and this song's about the first time visiting her.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
She's pretty good today.
[F] Mousy [C] nurse whispers.
Judge Judy's voice [G] it crawls
[C] down the hall.
[D] Grandma calls me Paul.
[F] Paul was her [G] baby.
I go along so she don't
get confused.
[F] When grandpa [C] went to heaven, [G] grandma [C] started slipping.
[F] Your kid [C] sold
the [G] house to put her in a home.
[F] She's already [D] in the dark.
[G] That old bird will
[D] never know the terrifying truth about getting too old. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now Christmas brings
joy [F] if only [C]
temporary.
The real uncle Paul [D] hauls a bullet [C] away from Georgia.
All he talks about is traffic [F] and a particular [C]
martini.
He was a real mama's
boy [G] till it came [D] time to pay.
[F] When grandpa [C] went to heaven, [G] grandma [C] started
slipping.
[F] The kid [D] sold the [G] house to put [C] her in a home.
[F] The guns [C] and the good
silver [G] were the first [C] things to go.
[F] That's the terrifying [G] truth about
getting [C] too old.
[G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
She steamrolled downhill [F] faster than we all [D] imagined.
_ _ _ _ We put her
in the ground [G] early [D] spring. _ _ _ _
_ _ And I've heard of this before [F] but I'd never [C] seen
it happen. _ _ _ _
I guess she couldn't handle the [D] weight of the pain.
Cause [F] when grandpa [C] went to heaven,
[G] _ grandma [C] went to heaven.
[F] The kid [C] sold the house to [G] cover [C] a storm.
[F] She's somewhere [C] now
better.
[G] Don't believe what you [C] are told.
[D] The terrifying truth about getting [G] too old. _
[D] _ Oh the terrifying [G] truth about getting [C] too old.
[G] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [N] _
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