Seals & Croft - The Boy Down The Road Chords

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_ Long, _ long ago, [Am] _
[G] in a house up [Em] the road, [Am] lived a maiden _ [B] so _ _ [Em] beautiful. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ Day after [Am]
day, [G] she looked the same [Em] old way, [Am] as the _ sun [B] shone off her [E] hair of [Em] gold. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Someday I would go [Am] _
there [G] and ask for [Em] her hand, just [Am] as soon _ [Em] [B] as I [Em] become a _ _ man. _
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_ _ _ _ the [Am] afternoon, _ [G] she'd sit _ [Em] in the shade, [A] and wave [Am] _ [B] as I watched from [E] down the [Em] _ road. _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ Time after [Am] time, [G] I wished my head [Em] to lay in [A] her [Am] arms, and [E] at [B]
last she [E] would [Em] know.
_ Then _ _ [A] _ _ one [Am] day, _ [G] a stranger [Em] came to call, [Am] and took her [Em] far [B] away [Em] down the road.
_ _ I _ [A] watched _ [Am] till the _ dusk [G] from the fields down [Em] below, _ [A] but in [Am] vain for [B] the night [E] began to [Em] fall.
_ Then _
_ [A] _ _ came the [Am] message that [G] summoned me [Em] to town, _ [Am] and my knees [B] gave way to [Em] the _ ground. _ _ _
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_ _ _ They say that [Am] this message _
_ _ [G] _ came [Em] with her dying breath, _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Bm] the very last words [Em] she ever spoke.
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_ [A] Give _ my _ [Am]
love [G] to the boy down [Em] the road, [Am] and tell him not [B] to _ cry, _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
for _ _ _ I _
_ [Em] know.
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