Chords for Nanci Griffith - There's A Light Beyond These Woods ( Mary Margaret )

[B] _ _ This is a title song for my first album and it's a song about friendships and the type of friendships that you make when you're a [Abm] small child
that last all the way [B] up till you're a big child.
_ _ _ Kind of from first teeth to second teeth in other words. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I grew up here in Austin, Texas. _ _
_ _ I spent my girlhood with a friend named Mary Margaret watching the sun come up and the sun go down over Mount Vannel wondering how the heck I was ever going to get out of here.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Now I spend a great deal of time wondering if I can just slip by here for a couple of days a month.
_ _ Because Mount Vannel may not be the tallest mountain in the world but it's home. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Mary Margaret and I used to ride our bicycles up to this place on Mount Vannel.
_ We'd stop by every 7-Eleven store on the way up there.
Clean out the vending machines, the bottle caps.
_ _ _ We'd sit up there when the sun went down, watch the lights come on in town.
Shoot those bottle caps off at the lights town. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Every once in a while you'd flick one just right and the light would go out. _
_ Say, by God I got that one. _ _
_ Five miles away but I got that one. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret. _ _ _
_ Do you think that we will go there and see [Gb] what makes [B] it shine, _ [E] Mary Margaret?
_ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[Abm] Some of us morning [B] and we talked all night. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ You [Gb] know we've made big plans [B] for 10 year [Abm] _ olds, _ _ [B] you and _ I. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Have you met my new _ boyfriend, _ _ _ _ _ _ Margaret?
_ His name is John and he rides my bus to school. _
_ [E] _ _ He holds my [B] hand.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Abm] He's 14.
[B] _ _ _ _ He's my _ older man. _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] We'll still be the best of [B] friends, the three of _ us.
[E] _ _
[B] Margaret, John and _ I.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Let's go to [E] New York City, [B] _ Margaret. _ _ _ _
We'll hide out in the subways _ and drink a poet's _ [Ebm] wine.
Oh, but [E] I have _ John. _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] _ See you in [B] tonight.
_ Stay _ behind. _
_ _ _ I'm crying. _ _
But [Gb] you were home in time for the [E] senior prom. _ _ _
[B] We lost John. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ Fantasies we _ penned [E] behind the living room now. _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ All the dreams we [B]
sang [E] when we knew [Abm] how.
Well, [B] they haven't changed. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] They'll never be two friends [B] just like you _ and me, Mary Margaret. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
[B] _ Nice to see your [E] family growing, [B] _ Margaret.
_ _ [Abm] _ _
[B] Your daughter and your husband here, they really treat you right.
But we've [E] talked all night. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ What about the light? _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] It's no more beyond our _ walls.
[E] When we were _ 10, _ [Abm] you were the [B] _ _ _ rambler then. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ Fantasies we _ penned behind [E] the living room now.
_ All [Ebm] the dreams we sang [B] when we [E] damn sure knew how. _
[B] Never [Dbm] changed. _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] They'll never be two _ friends [B] just like [E] you [B] and me, _ Maggie.
Can't you _ _ see?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
There's a light beyond these woods, _ Mary _ _ _ Margaret. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _