This Old Guitar Chords by John Denver

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[B] _ This uh this guitar was made in 1910 it belongs to my grandmother.
It's the guitar that she played when she was a little girl.
And she gave it to me when I was about 12 years old and it's the guitar that I learned how to play on.
for a large part of my life I.
Think I had this guitar with me everywhere that I went I.
Carried it on the farm back in Oklahoma and on wheat harvest.
I got hit over the head with it once in a lumber camp up in Washington State.
_ This crack right along here if you can see it a fella was not a Hank Williams fan at all _ _ Anyway _ about _ _ .
Little over five years ago.
I I lost the guitar and it was was kind of a sad occasion to me and the strange thing is that.
Just about the time that it got to be okay with me that I had lost it.
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found it again _ and.
This was last January when we were filming our last television special and I was _ [F] I.
Can't really tell you how thrilled I was about getting it back.
I I literally I couldn't wait to get back to the hotel where I was staying at here in Los Angeles and just.
sit down and and be with a guitar again and.
Play it, you know, and _ [Eb] I did that I got back to the hotel and we [Db] we got very comfortable.
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Told it all that had happened to me since the last time I'd seen it.
_ _ It told me a few stories _ somewhere in the conversation _ we _ found this song _ .
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guitar taught me to [Bbm] sing.
the [Fm] love song.
_ [Gb] _ Showed me [Ab] how to laugh how [Db] to cry.
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] It [Db] _ introduced [Gb] me [Abm] to some friends of mine.
[Db] _ [Ab] Brightened up [Db] some days.
_ [Gb] Helped me [Ab] make it through some lonely [Dbm] night.
[Ab] _ _ [Bbm] What [Db] _ [Gb] a friend to [Ab] have on a cold.
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_ [Db] _ _ old [Ab] guitar gave me [Bbm] my _ lovely [Fm] lady _ .
_ [B] It opened up [Ab] her eyes and ears [Db] to me.
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[B] It brought us close [Ab] together _ .
And [Db] I guess [Ab] it broke [Db] her heart.
[B] But it opened up [Ab] the space for us to [Db] _ be.
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[Gb] What a lovely place [Ab] and a lovely space [Db] to [Ab] be.
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[Db] You.
This old [Ab] guitar gave me [Bbm] my.
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_ [B] the things, you [Ab] know, I love [Db] to _ [Ab] do.
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To [B] _ serenade [Abm] the stars that [Ab] shine [Db] from a sunny [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] mountainside.
_ [B] _ Most of [Ab] all to sing my songs for [Db] [Ab] you.
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_ _ [Ab] Love to sing my songs for [Db] you.
[Ab] Yes, I.
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I _ [Gb] _ _ [Ab] love to sing my songs [Db] for _ [Ab] you.
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_ _ [Gb] _ _ [Ab] Thank you for sharing this evening with us my friends [Db] _ _ Good night _ .
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