Chords for Merle Haggard - Shelly's Winter Love

_ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
know I'm [D] only _ [A] Shelly's better [A] love She [E] _ _ _
_ only [D] seems to need me [A] now and then
_ _ _ _ [E]
I know I'm [D] only _ Shelly's [A] better love _ _ _ _ But she's mine alone [E] till springtime [A] comes again _ _ _ _
When springtime [D] comes I know that [A] she'll be leaving _ _ _ _ _
When those friends of hers [D] start calling [A] her profound _ _ _ _
So I'll live and wait [D] for Shelly's [A] winter season _ _ _ _
Winter trouble _ [E] moments bring her [A] back around
_ _ I _ know I'm [D] only _ Shelly's [A] better love She _ _ _ _ only seems [D] to need me [A] now and then
I _ _ _ know I'm [D] only _ Shelly's [A] better love _ _ _ _ But she's mine alone [E] till springtime [A] comes again _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
When [Bb] Shelly's painted [Eb] world turns cold [Bb] and stormy _ _ _ _
It's then she finds [Eb] the need to come [Bb] around
_ _ _ _ To these arms of mine [Eb] she knows are [Bb] always waiting
_ _ _ _ But she'll leave when love [F] has thawed the [Bb] winter ground
_ _ _ I know I'm only [Eb] _ Shelly's better [Bb] _ love _ _ _ _ She only seems [Eb] to need me now [Bb] and then
_ I _ know I'm only [Eb] _ _ Shelly's better love _ _ _ _ But she's mine alone till [F] springtime _ [Bb] comes again
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