Better Days Chords by Dianne Reeves

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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] Silver [Gm] gray hair, neat [Cm] big _ [Bb] combed face.
_ [Ab] _ [Gm] There were four _ _ generations _ [D] of _ _
[Gm] days [Fm] she [Eb] was so [Bb] wise.
No surprise [Dbm] past her _
[Cm] _ _ _ eyes, _ [Eb] she'd see it all. _ _ _ _
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_ [Dm] I was [Bb] a child, oh [C] about three, [Bb] _ four.
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[Eb] All day [Gm] I'd ask _ questions, _ [D] _ _ [Gb] _ [Gm] _ _ [Ab] but _ [Eb] whenever, _ [Bb] she never _ would [Cm] ever _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ be aware.
_ _ _ [F] [Eb] No, _ no.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Fm] How can I be sure [Cm] what is right or wrong?
[Ebm] And why does what I want [Db] always change so much?
[E] Please tell me where does God [B] live and why will he [Db] come to me?
[Eb] _ _ _ [Fm] I'd say, can anyone as [Eb] mild as I ever find [Ebm] out why the world is so [Fm] full of lies?
I _ [E] want to know the [B] answers before I [Abm] fall off [Eb] the seat.
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ She [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ saw [Gm] her _ smile as [Cm] she took to [Gm] _ thinking.
[Fm] _ [Gm] Then she pulled up _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Gb]
[Gm] once again, _ [Fm] but [Eb] tonight [Bb] she was slightly _ _ remarkably [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] different [Ab] _ _ somehow.
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_ _ [Bb] Slowly [Gm] she _ _ rocked, looking [Cm] out _ [Gm] for _
[Fm] sleep.
Grandma [Eb] yonder [Gm] she stretched thin, she [D] started [Gm] to speak [Fm] what she [Eb] told me.
[Bb] Would hold me and _ [Cm] hold _ me _ [Eb] together, _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ yeah, yeah, yeah.
[D] _ _ She [Ab] said, all the things you [Cm] ask you will know someday, [Ebm] but you have got to [Ab] live in praise the way [E] God put us here I think.
[B] And by faith I've reached [Abm] better _ [Eb] days.
[Fm] _ She said, surely all our [Gm] wounds in the dark of night [Ebm] ain't no more than _ [Ab] _ mine to try.
[E] Can't get to the better days unless [B] you make it through [Ab] the night.
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[Eb] _ _ You got to make [Bbm] it through the night [Eb] to stay young and blue.
_ You [Ab] can't get to no [Eb] _ _ _
[Ab] _ date unless [Eb] you make [Fm] it through the night.
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_ _ [Fm] Oh, [Eb] I'm _ _
[Ab] gonna see those _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] better days, but you got to [Eb] be _ _
[Fm] patient, _ _ [E] be _ _
[Gb] patient.
_ _ [Db] Oh, _ [Eb]
baby, be _ [Ab] patient. _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [F] Later [Gm] that year, after [Cm] _ _ _
[Gm] chiller spring, [Fm] _ [Eb] heaven sent [E] angels down, _ [D] gave [C] grandma [Gb] _
[Gm] wings.
_ [Eb] _ [Gm] Now she's flying _
[Bb] and sliding _ and _ [Cm] gliding _ _ in [Eb] better _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [D] days.
[Fm] And although I'm a grown up, [Eb] I still get confused.
[Ebm] I stumble through the [Fm] dark, bump and [E] groove.
When night gets in my way, [B] I can still hear my grandma [Abm] say, I [Eb] can hear her say, _ _
[Db] _ _ _ [Eb] I can [Fm] hear her say.
[Eb] _ Can't [Ab] get to the _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] better days unless [Eb]
you make it [Ab] through the night. _ _
_ Oh, _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I'm [Ab] gonna see those _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ better days, but you got [Eb] to be patient.
[Fm] Oh, baby, _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ be [Fm] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ab] patient.
Can't get to no [Eb] date _ _ [Ab] _ _ unless [Eb] you make [Fm] it through the night.
You got to make it _ _ through the [Eb] night. _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] Until you see me now, [Fm] baby. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] She used to sit me on [Ab] a knee.
_ _ [Eb] She used to call [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
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_ me.
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