Chords for Jimmy Smith - Blackboard of My Heart

[Em] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
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_ _ [Cm] _ _ When [Eb] I was young and went to school, they taught me how [Bb] to ride, to take the chalk and
make a mark and hope it turns [Eb] out right.
_ Well that's the way it is with love and what you did [Ab] to me.
_ I wrote it so [Eb] you'd know that I [Bb] was yours _ [Eb] eternally. _ _ _ _
But my tears have washed that love of you on the blackboard of [Bb] my heart.
Well it's too late to clean the slate and make another [Eb] start. _
I'm satisfied the way things are, although we're far [Ab] _ apart.
My tears have [Fm] washed [Eb] that love of you from [Bb] the blackboard of [Eb] my heart.
_ [Bm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
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If you'd been true the way you should and not have gone [Bb] astray, _
these tears would not have fallen down and washed the words [Eb] away. _ _
No need to talk, cause if the [C] chalk [Bbm] should write those words [Ab] again, _
_ it will be [Eb] for someone [Cm] else, [Bb] not things that [Eb] might have been. _
_ _ _ _ My tears have washed that love of you from the blackboard [Em] of [Bb] my heart.
_ It's too late to clean the slate and make another [Eb] start.
_ I'm satisfied the way things are, although we're [G] far [Ab] apart.
_ My tears have washed [Eb] that love of you from [Bb] the blackboard of [Eb] my heart. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] My tears have washed [Eb] that love of you from [Bb] the blackboard of [Eb] my heart.
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