Intro: F Bb F Bb C F
[Verso 1]
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Last Sunday we got in the car and we drove
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To the town you were raised in, your boyhood home
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The trees were just turning, up on the ridge
C C7 F Bb/D C7
And this was your valley when you were a kid
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You showed me the railroad that your daddy worked on
C C7 F Bb/D C7
As we neared the old house where your granny lives on
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She's nearing ninety years now, with her daughters by her side
C C7 F F C/E
Who tend the places in the heart where loneliness can hide
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Raised by the women who are stronger than you know
Dm7 C Gm C7
A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn
F F7+ F7 F6
The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth
Gm F/A Bb Gm C7 F
By your mother... and her mother, the weavers of your cloth
C/E Dm Bb C7
[Verso 2]
F F/A Bb F/A Gm
Your grandmother owned a gun in 1932
C C7 F Bb/D C7
When times were bad just everywhere, you said she used it too
F F/A Bb F/A Gm
And the life and times of everyone are traced inside their palms
C C7 F Bb/D C7
Her skin may be so weathered, but her grip is still so strong
F F/A Bb F/A Gm
And I see your eyes belong to her and too your mama too
C C7 F Bb/D C
A slice of Virginia sky, the clearest shade of blue
F F/A Bb F/A Gm C7 F C/E
[Refrão] Dm7 C Bb C F C/E
Raised by the women who are stronger than you know
Dm7 C Gm C7
A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn
F F7+ F7 F6
The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth
Gm F/A Bb Gm C7 F
By your mother... and her mother, the weavers of your cloth
C/E Dm Bb C7 Bb F F/A Gm C Dm C/E F Bb C Dm G Gm C
[Verso 3]
F F/A Bb F/A Gm
And a rich man you might never be, they'd love you just the same
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They've handed down so much to you besides your Christian name
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And the spoken word won't heal you like the laying on of hands
C C7 F C/E
Belonging to the ones who raised you to a man
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Raised by the women who are stronger than you know
Dm7 C Gm C7
A patchwork quilt of memory only women could have sewn
F F7+ F7 F6
The threads were stitched by family hands, protected from the moth
Gm F/A Bb Gm C7 F
By your mother... and her mother, the weavers of your cloth
Dm Bb F/A Bb F C/E Dm C Bb C7 F
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