Levi Stubbs/Four Tops "Honey" Chords

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_ _ Oh, see the tree how big it's grown and it wasn't very [Ab] long it wasn't big
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_ _ [Fm] I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it [Eb] was just a twig _ _
_ _ Then the first snow came she ran out to brush the snow away [Ab] so it wouldn't die
_ When we [D] wanted to die [Fm] she came running in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself
[Eb] and I laughed till I cried _ now she was always young and hard kind of dumb but kind of [Fm] smart
but I [Ab] loved her [Fm] so _ I _ surprised her with a puppy help us up all Christmas [Eb] Eve two years ago _
_ _ and it would embarrass her when I would come home from working [Fm] late she knew that I knew
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_ _ [Fm] that she'd been sitting crying all night over some [Eb] silly silly late late show _ _
_ [F] but honey I miss you
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_ [Bb] _ [Eb] I'm being good _ _
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_ _ _ [E] Oh
She wrecked the car and she was [B] sad so afraid that I'd be [Dbm] mad but what the [Gb] heck _ _
_ _ [Gbm] Though I pretended hard to be [Gb]
guess you could say she saw through [E] me and hugged my neck _ _
_ _ I came home unexpectedly [B]
found her crying needlessly [Dbm] in the middle of [Gbm] the day _ _
_ _ It was in the early spring [Gb] when flowers bloom and I would sing [E] she went away _ _
_ _ [F] Yes one day while I wasn't home [C] she [F] was dying all [Dm] alone [Bb] the angels [E] came _
_ Now [Gm] all I have are memories of [A] honey and I wake up [F] nights and I call honey _ _ _
_ Now my life's an empty stage where honey lived and honey played and [Dm] our love grew [E] up _ _
_ A small [Bb] cloud passed overhead [E] and cries down [Am] in the flowerbed that's honey love
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Honey honey I [Gm] miss you _ _ and I'm [F] being good
_ _ I [C] long to be [Gm] with you if [F] only I could
_ Honey honey I [Gm] miss you yes I do
[F] I do be good _ _ honey honey I want to [Gm] be with you _ _ _ _ _ _
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