Intro:
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Verse I:
Silver gray hair neatly comb...
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E|----------------------------------------------------5--------3---------------1----------| There were four... generation.. of love.. face..
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E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| She was so wise no surprise past her eyes..
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E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| She's seen it all
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Verse II:
I was a child, oh about three or four
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E|-----------------------------------5------3--------------------1-----------| All day I'd ask question At night I'd ask more.
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| But whenever; she never, would ever,
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| turn me away.
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Refrain:
I'd say how can I be sure what is right or wrong ?
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E|------------6-------------------------------------------------| And why does.. take so long ?
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E|------------4-------------------------------------------------| Please tell me... And why won't...
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I'd say, Grandma what is love ? Will I ever find out ?
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E|------------6---------------------------------------------------------| Why are we so poor, what is life about ?
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E|------------4-------------------------------------------------------| I wanna know the answers before I fall off to sleep.
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Verse III
She sort of smiled as she tucked me in.
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E|-----------------------------------------5---------3------3------------1---------------| Then she pulled up that old rockin' chair once again.
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E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| But tonight she was slightly, remarkably
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E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Different somehow
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Verse IV
Slowly she rocked, lookin' half asleep.
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E|-----------------------------------5----3------1--------------| Grandma yawned as she stretched. Then she started to speak.
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E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| What she told me, would mold me, and hold me
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E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Together inside.
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Refrain:
She said all the things you ask You will know someday.
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E|------------6-------------------------------------------------| But you have got to live in a patient way.
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E|------------4-------------------------------------------------| God put us here by fate And by fate that means better days.
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| She said, child we are all moons in the dark of night.
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E|------------6---------------------------------------------------------| Ain't no morning gonna come 'til the time is right.
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E|------------4-------------------------------------------------------| Can't get to better days lest you make it through the night.
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E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|You gotta make it through the night, yes you do.
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Chorus I:
You can't get to no better days
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E|--------------------------------------------|Unless you make it through the night.
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E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Oh, you will see those better days
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E|--------------------------------------------|But you gotta be patient. (Be patient) oh baby, be patient.
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Verse V
(do pattern on verse I1)
Later that year, at the turn of spring,
Heaven sent angels down and gave Grandma her wings.
Now, she's flying, and sliding, and gliding
In better days
Chorus II
(do pattern on chorus I)
(Be patient) You can't get to no better days
Unless you make it through the night baby.
(Be patient) Oh, you will see those better days
But you gotta be patient.
Child, do you hear me, yeah.
(Be patient) You can't get to no better days
Unless you make it, you got to make it
you got to make it
You got to make it through the night
(Be patient) Oh Grandma, oh Grandma
Do you see me now, lady Oh oh oh oh oh...
(Be patient) She used to sit me on her knee
She used to comb my hair
She used to tell me stories..
My Grandma took me everywhere