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[Verse 1]
     F           Bb               F
If I mistook the sun for mango
          F                  Bb               C
I'd fly up there and reach for it too
C
It's the story of something older
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And bigger than me and you
              F       Bb    F
And you told it in a letter
          F                Bb                 C
In the form of an evergreen cassette
C
And I played it in the morning
                                    F
Til after the sun would set

[Chorus]
      Dm             F
See mother I believe
        Dm             F                     Bb
That half of everything I hear is true
    Dm                  F
Between you and me
Dm              F               C
I believe the anecdotes too

[Verse 2]
             F                   Bb           F
In the veranda in the midnight heat
F                              Bb               C
Cousins and I would wait for the rain
C
Singing songs about America
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And then the first drops came
              F      Bb       F
So don't worry even though you were
F                  Bb              C
Oceans and continents away
C
I heard evergreen hits Lullabys
                                          F
And everything you had to say

[Chorus]
       Dm             F
See mother I believe
        Dm              F                    Bb
That half of everything I hear is true
     Dm                 F
Between you and me
Dm              F               Bb
I believe the anecdotes too

[Bridge]
C
If they get you through
F
Cause time time can't be bent with the drop of a tear
Bb
You'd see it rain in our house for a year
F                                                          C
This is the sound of the beating you'd hear

F
All the tapes we've taped over all of our hopes and our fears
Bb
The open veranda's been flooded for years
F                                              C
I always hoped that I'd see you here

Dm         F
Ahhhhh ahhhhhh
Dm         F         Bb
Ahhhhh ahhhh ahhhh
Dm          F
Ahhhhh ahhhhh
Dm       F            Bb
Ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhh

F
But time time can't be bent with the drop of a tear
Bb
And though you say you missed out all of those years
F                                                           C
Your voice on the tapes always kept us near

[Chorus]
      Dm             F
See mother I believe
        Dm              F                    Bb
That half of everything I hear is true
     Dm                 F
Between you and me
Dm             F                     Bb
I believe in everything you do