Elsie Why - Sami Clark (LYRICS) 1977.wmv Chords

[G] [Gm] How can I tell you why you [Dm] mean so much to me?
Although [Cm] you have hurt me, how can [Gm] I?
_ Elsie, why, _ what you are, have you [Dm] a heart of stone
to leave [Cm] your child alone?
[D] Elsie, why, you always [Cm] make him cry, always [F] make him cry for you.
Why don't you [Gm] try again to save [F] my life from [Cm] pain?
I've nothing to explain.
_ [Gm] Elsie, why, _ child of mine, _ please don't cry.
Why your [Dm] mother left you, boy, to grow [Cm] without her joy?
[Gm] Child of mine, _ please don't cry.
_ This is life, and [Dm] when you'll be a man,
you'll [Eb] try to [Cm] understand [D] what is life.
Oh [Cm] baby, you and I will [F] make a happy life.
I am [Gm] the one who will guide you [F] through troubles of the world,
which [Cm] makes you feel the hurt.
[Gm] You are mine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Daddy, I've heard them saying my mother's still alive.
_ No, my boy, [Eb] your mother died many years ago.
Daddy, [Cm] tell me the truth, [Bb] if it's a [F] lie. _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ Shetty, my boy, listen to me.
What I want to say to you, what a [Eb] joke.
Would you believe that the dead return [Cm] alive to you?
[Bb] Would you believe that?
[F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ But please, please, don't _ ask me you, daddy.
_ [Cm] Tell me the truth, ask me [F] for the truth.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] I love you, [Eb] daddy, [Gm] but I need my [D] mommy. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [Gm] Long ago and so far, when [Dm] else he went away?
And [Cm] with no word to say [Gm] for your child.
_ Please don't cry, _ this is life, and [Dm] when you'll be a man,
you'll [Cm] try to understand _ [D] what is life.
Oh [Cm] baby, you and I will [F] make a happy life.
I am [Gm] the one who will guide you [F] through troubles of the world,
which [Cm] makes you feel the hurt.
_ [Gm] I'll see why,