Chords for The Bless Of Age (Simani)

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_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
I met up with an old friend [Bb] who asked me in [F] to dine
[C] and meet his aging mother, kids all can [F] pass the time.
In her eyes her hue still sparkled,
though her [Bb] hair had long [C] turned gray.
[Bb] With a voice so [C] [F] soft and gentle,
[C] these words to me [F] did say,
_ [Bb] I have lived a good life,
[F] I'm happy though I'm old.
[G] You never turn the pages back
[C] in life's great _ _ storybook.
[F] Yet though my hair is silver now,
[Bb] and my step [C] is slow,
[Bb] I thank my [C] God [F] that he should let [C] me live till I [F] am old.
_ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
We long to slow the hands of time
[Bb] and hold back on [F] the gears,
[C] to change our frowns to laughter
and dry up all [F] our tears.
But these are just the fancies
of the [Bb] mortals that [C] we are.
[Bb] Are [C] there a part [F] of living
I'm [C] so happy I [F] could share?
_ _ _ I'm satisfied I cannot change [Bb] one minute of [F] the past.
[C] I'm thankful that I've had the time
to make the [F] memories last.
And though my hair is silver now,
[Bb] and my step [C] is slow,
[Bb] I thank [C] my God [F] that he has let [C] me live till I [F] am old.
[Bb] I have lived a good life,
[F] I'm happy though I'm old.
You [G] never turn the pages back
[C] in life's great _ storybook.
[F] And though my hair is silver now,
[Bb] and my step [C] is slow,
I [Bb] thank [C] my God [F] that he has let me [C] live till I [F] am old.
I [Bb] thank [C] my God [F] that he has let [C] me live till I [F] am old. _ _ _