Chords for Little Jimmy Dickens - Raggedy Ann

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_ You sure have been quite a doll Raggedy Ann.
_ [Am] Yes, _ [C] quite [G] a doll.
_ And I didn't even know you till I started making these trips up here to talk to you.
_ _ And now I'm beginning to [D] see more and more why my baby loved [G] you so much.
_ _ _ Why sometimes Raggedy Ann I'd almost [Am] swear that [C] you're just [G] about as much alive as I am.
_ _ Because when I hold you up close to me, _ I can feel every [Am] ounce of the warm glow [D] of love [G] that she must have felt.
_ _ _ And you know what Raggedy Ann, I'd give anything that I own in [Am] this world if I [G] knew just half the memories that have passed through those little black button eyes of yours. _
Hid themselves in your tear stained stuff. _
[B] _ [A] _ _ [D] Bet you're just busting out with little old [G] childhood secrets that could really set a lonely man's heart aglow.
_ _ _ Sometimes I [Am] still have to [C] laugh at [G] the way you had to sample all of her food and see all of her little new dresses and answer a thousand questions.
_ _ [D] But you never seemed to mind.
_ [G] Because you always had that big old smile on your face. _ _
And I bet that smile's dried more tears and [Am] cured more little [C] old hurts than I could [G] ever hope to kiss away. _ _
_ _ It's really a small wonder you're all in one piece.
_ The way she used to drag you around [A] by one leg everywhere [D] she went.
_ [A] But you [Am] didn't seem to mind.
[G] Not one minute. _
_ _ _ And I [Am] want to thank you for giving me [C] something to love [G] when there was nothing left to love. _
And thank you for helping me raise her after her mama died.
_ _ Somehow you stepped right into her mama's shoes and just that much farther into our hearts.
_ _ _ And then that year of the rain.
You remember? _
[Am] [C] One night the fever [G] took my baby and you laid right there beside her while I did everything I could.
Right up to the end.
_ Since then it's just [B] been me and [A] you, honey.
_ [G] [D] Just me and you. _
_ [G] And the years haven't seemed to bother you too much.
[A] _ [G] We're sure a little bit faded [C] here and there from the wind and the rain.
[G] _ But that heartwarming charm and that spark of love seems stronger now than it ever did.
And look [D] at me.
I [G] barely made it up the hill today.
Look, Raggedy Ann, I can't even brush that dirt from my knees. _
So don't look for me tomorrow. _
[Am] I might not [C] make it.
_ [G] _ And I'd like to take you with me, but I know that you'd be happier right here beside my baby and keeping her warm.
_ I gotta go now.
[A] _ [D] I gotta leave you.
And about the only [G] thing that comes to my mind to say to you [Em] is,
God bless you.
[N] And you sure have been quite a doll, Raggedy Ann.
_ Yes, sir. _
Quite a doll.
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