Chords for O.V. Wright - Sacrifice

_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ You know, I guess you're wondering why [Eb] _
a man would want to sing a sad, slow, and [Eb] lonely song.
_ [Bb] _
_ _ But you'd be surprised
_ what a man [Eb] will do
_ _ when the one he loves is gone.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ People, I've only been in two times in my life, [C] _ _ [Eb] _
and as strange as it seems, _
it was the same girl [Bb] twice.
_ _ _ _ _ _
Oh, this girl made me [Eb] weep, _ and she made me moan. _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] She broke my little heart.
_ _ And left me all alone.
_ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ You see, _
my heart's been broken more [Bb]
times than the ten commandments. _ _
And I've been made to cry [Eb] more times than a weeping woman.
You understand what I'm saying?
_ _ _ So [Bb] if you see a man out there tonight walking _ _
with tears in his eyes
[Eb] _
_ _ and pain in his heart, _ _ _ it'll be [Bb] me. Me.
_ _ If I had one last song to sing,
[Eb] Me.
_ _ I believe it would go something [F] like this.
Tonight [Bb] I _ walk, baby. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] These streets are _ long. _ _
_ _ _ I can [Bb]
feel the pain _ _ _
_ _ _ coming [Eb] on _ strong. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] I got no one,
[Bb] no one,
[D] to say sorry to.
_ _ _ _ [Gm]
I'm lonely, [F] _ [Eb] lonely as a man can be.
Trying to [Bb] make me pay. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] By [F] living my life.
_ Life. _
_ _ _ Living [Eb] my life. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You see, [Bb] love ain't nothing but sacrifice.
_ [F] Sometimes I wonder
[G] how [Bb] many _ _ _ years, baby.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] Oh, Lord, is there in front of me
_ before I [Bb] find
someone _ who really loves me
_ _ who's [Eb] gonna set my heart free? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb]
Only the good Lord
above [D] knows.
_ _ _ _ [Gm]
Lord, what am I doing?
Because [Eb] all these pains and woes
she's trying [Bb] to make me pay.
Pay. _
_ _ _ That [F]
awful price.
_ Pay.
_ _ _ Of [Eb]
sacrifice. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Love ain't
[Bb] nothing but sacrifice.
I [F] went to my dear old mother and said,
Mother [Bb] dear,
mother dear, mother dear, mother dear.
_ _ _ Your [Eb] baby
boy got pain in his heart. _
_ _ The girl [Bb] I love tonight. _ _ _
_ Oh, we're
[Eb] so far apart. _ _ _
_ _ _ She [Bb] looked
at me with tears in her eyes _ _
_ _ and [Eb] replied by saying
these words to me. _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ [Bb] Boy, each _ night _ you pray.
_ _ _ _ [Eb]
Oh, she'll
come and break these chains one day.
_ _ [Bb] You got no one
to [D] call your _ own.
_ _ [Gm]
She's
on the way.
[F] My baby [Eb] boy's all alone.
She's trying to [Bb] make him pay.
Pay.
He [Eb] can't take it.
She can't take it.
[Bb]
She's trying to make him pay.
She [Eb] can't make him pay.
[Bb] _ _
Oh, I can't pay.
[Eb] No, no.
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_ _ _ _ [N] _ _