Chords for Spbgma 2013 - Hallway by the Pool Jam - Little Bessie

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_ _ I've been close to mother and closer, _ but your arms around me tight.
For I've _ called and tired your mother, _ _ [F#] and I feel so [B] strange tonight. _
_ _ _ _ _ Something hurts me here near mother, _ like a stone upon my breast.
And I _ wonder, mother, wonder, _ why [F#] it is I cannot [F#] _
rest.
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_ All the day while you were working, as I lay upon my bed.
I was _ trying to be patient, _ and to [F#] think of what you said.
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_ _ Just before the lamps were lighted, just before the children came.
While the room was very quiet, _ _ I [F#] heard someone [B] call my name. _
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Come up here, my little Bessie.
Come up here and live with me.
Where little children _ never suffer _ through the long eternity. _ _ _
In the silent hour of midnight, and the _ silence calling me.
I heard the _ _ news, _ [F#] little Bessie [B] fell asleep. _
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_ _ _ _ I was younger at the ballroom, little short and very fair.
Little _ Bessie