Chords for Lydia

[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Eb] _ Betty lit [Ab] a cigarette _ [Cm] today
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ Ancient fumbling [Ab] fingers in her [Cm] _ way
_ [Bb] From [Eb] _
[Ab] a forty year old [Cm] coffee cup she [Bb] sipped a bit [Ab] of gin _
_ [Cm] _ _ Closed [Bb] her eyes and let [Ab] the memories in
_ She _ [Eb] _ lives in [Ab] the old place all [Cm] _ alone
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ Keeps in touch with [Ab] neighbors by the [Cm] _ phone
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[Ab] Grows roses [Cm] on the graves of her [Bb] _ firstborn and [Ab] his [Cm] father
_ _ And [Bb] the coal trucks never [Ab] bothered _ _ her _
_ [Eb] _ _ Old [Cm] Liddy let him [Bb] go, the boy is [Ab] gone _
_ [Cm] _ Her mother [Bb] struggled as [Ab] she tore him from her _ arms
[Eb] _ Oh _ [Cm] Liddy, aye, [Bb] her tears are heaven's [Ab] rain _
_ [Cm] _ But [Bb] she never was [Ab] the same
_ A _
_ [Eb] _ _ cotton [Ab] dress and satin [Cm] _ _ shoes
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ Indian [Ab] summer sun [Cm] dressed in amber [Bb] _ hues
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Cm] Spending time with [Bb] a coal _ [Ab] miner's son
_ [Cm] _ _ To [Bb] an old time [Ab] fiddle tune
_ A _
_ [Eb] _ month flew [Ab] by just like [Cm] a breeze _ [Bb] that year
[Eb] _ _ Ray wet [Ab] in June and by [Cm] the fall the [Bb] boil's here _
_ [Ab] Word come [Cm] down from Big Stone there's [Bb] a fire in [Ab] the mine _
_ [Cm] _ _ And [Bb] eleven men [Ab] they couldn't _ find _
_ [Eb] _ Old _ [Cm] Liddy let him [Bb] go, the boy [Ab] is gone
_ [Cm] _ Her mother [Bb] struggled as [Ab] she tore him from her _ arms
[Eb] Oh _ _ [Cm] Liddy, aye, [Bb] her tears are heaven's [Ab] rain _ _
_ [Cm] But _ [Bb] she never was [Ab] the same _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ She watched [Ab] them pull him from the [Cm] _ hole
_ [Bb] The [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] overalls he wore [Cm] are blackened by [Bb] the smoke _
[Ab] _ Liddy twice [Cm] had had this dream [Bb] and twice it had come [Ab] true _
_ [Cm] _ That when [Bb] she saw his [Ab] father's boots she knew _ _
_ [Eb] Oh _ _ [Cm] Liddy let him [Bb] _ go, [Ab] the boy is [Cm] gone
Her mother [Bb] struggled as [Ab] she tore him from her _ arms
[Eb] _ Oh _ [Cm] Liddy, aye, [Bb] her tears are heaven's [Ab] rain _
_ [Cm] But _ [Bb] she never was [Ab] the same _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ Liddy lit [Ab] a cigarette _ [Cm] _ today
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ Ancient fumbling [Ab] _ fingers in her [Cm] _ way
_ [Bb] _ _ _
[Eb] [Ab] From a forty year [Cm] old coffee cup [Bb] she sipped a bit [Ab] of gin _
_ [Cm] _ _ Closed [Bb] her eyes and let [Ab] the memories in _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
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