Honey    (video)    (intro)    (midi)

 

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1. See the tree, how big it’s grown,

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    but, friend, it hasn’t been too long, it wasn’t big.

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    I laughed at her and she got mad,

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    the first day that she planted it was just a twig.

 

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2. Then the first snow came and she

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    ran out, to brush the snow away so it wouldn’t die.

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    Came runnin’ in all excited,

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    slipped and almost hurt herself, and I laughed till I cried.

 

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3. She was always young at heart,

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    kind-a dumb and kind-a smart, and I loved her so.

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    And I surprised her with a puppy,

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    kept me up all Christmas Eve,         two years ago.

 

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4. And it would sure embarrass her,

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    when I came in from working late, ‘cause I would know,

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    that she’d been sittin’ there and cryin’

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    over some sad and silly late late show.

    

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And honey, I miss you,               and I’m being good.

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And I’d love to be with you,                if only I could.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5. She wrecked the car and she was sad,

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    and so afraid that I’d be mad, so what the heck.

 

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    Though I pretended hard to be,

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    guess you could say she saw through me, and hugged my neck.

 

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6. I came home unexpectedly,

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    and found her crying needlessly in the middle of the day.

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    And it was in the early spring

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    when flowers bloom aynd robins sing, she went away. + CHORUS

 

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7. One day while I was not at home,

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   while she was there and all alone,  the angels came.

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    Now all I have is memories,

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    of honey, and I wake up nights and call her name.

 

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8. Now my life’s an empty stage,

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    where honey lived, and honey played,     and love grew up.

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    A small cloud passes overhead,

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    and cries down in the flower bed, that honey loved.

 

+ repeat verse 1 ......          

     

(midi = capo 1st)    (Bobby Goldsboro)