Capo on the 3rd fret
Chords Are as follows:
LAm7 SIb DO RE REm FA SOL
E -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -1- -3-
A -0- -1- -3- -X- -X- -3- -2-
D -2- -3- -2- -0- -0- -3- -0-
G -0- -3- -0- -2- -2- -2- -0-
B -1- -3- -1- -3- -3- -1- -0-
E -0- -1- -0- -2- -1- -1- -3-
Intro SOL RE LAm7 DO (x2)
SOL RE
I pulled into the shopping center
LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother
SOL RE
Like ice cream melting they embraced
LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
Years of bad decisions running down her face
SOL RE LAm7
All morning I'd been thinking my lifes's so hard
DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
And they wore everthing they own, living in a car
SOL RE LAm7 DO
I wanted to tell him it would be okay
SOL RE LAm7 DO
But I just got in my suburban and I drove away
Chorus
SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
SOL RE
Keep having this dream about my old man
LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
I'm ten years old, and he's holding my hand
SOL RE LAm7
We're talking on the front porch watching the sun go down
DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and couldn't be around
SOL RE LAm7 DO
So many things I wanna say to him
SOL RE LAm7 DO
But I just placed a rose on his grave, and I talked to the wind
Chorus
SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry
Instramental: Bb F Dm C Bb F D
SOL RE
I'm sitting here with my kids and my wife
LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
And everything that I hold dear in my life
SOL RE
We say grace and we thank the lord
LAm7 DO
Got so much to be thankful for
SOL RE LAm7 DO
Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says
SOL RE LAm7 DO
I haven't had my story yet
SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL
Everything weighing on my mind dissapears just like that
D Am7(Strummed once)
When she lifts her head off her pillow and says...I love you dad
RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO SOL
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
RE LAm7 DO SOL RE LAm7 DO
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry
OUTRO: G D (x3) End on a G
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