Chords for Johnny McEvoy-Long Long Before My Time

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_ _ You ask me why I look so sad [Eb] on this [F] bright [Bb] summer day.
_ _ Why the tears are in my eyes, [Eb] my [F] sins so [Bb] far away.
_ Well, sit yourself _ beside me, love, [Eb] and put [F] your [Bb] hand in mine.
_ And I'll tell you why, someone I loved, [Eb] loved, [F] loved for [Bb]
a time.
_ _ _ _ I'm sitting here and thinking of [Eb]
those [F] days so [Bb] long ago. _ _
When I was just a child like you [Eb] and the girl [F] I used [Bb] to know.
_ To fields of green we laughed and played [Eb]
and sang [F] all the [Bb] bees' rhymes.
Oh, summer days were warmer than [Eb] long [F] before.
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_ _ Through childhood years our love it blew, [Eb] till our [F] hearts were [Bb] just as one.
_ And we promised each eternal love [Eb] in the church [F] below [Bb] the town.
_ We settled in this little house [Eb] I was proud [F] to call [Bb] our mine.
_ While we were young and happy then, [Eb] long, long before [Bb] you. _
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One lovely year was all we had _ [Eb] until [F] the sixth [Bb] year. _
But still the roses from the trees, [Eb] my tears, they [Bb] fell like rain.
For nine long months she carried me, [Eb] but in [F] the end [Bb] she died. _
She chose to go, so you might live, _
[Eb] long, [F] long, long [Bb] before you die. _ _
_ _ So you ask me why, why you look so sad [Eb] on this bright [Bb] summer day.
_ Or why the tears are in my [Eb] eyes and I seem [F] so [Bb] far away.
_ It's just you see _ black life come [Eb] and your [F] eyes look [Bb] into mine.
_ And you smile so much like she did, [Eb] long, long [F] before [Bb] you die.
_ _ _ _ _ And you smile so much like she did, [Eb] long, long _ _ _ [F] before _ _ _ you _ _ _ _ [Bb]
die. _ _ _ _ _ _ _