Love Keep Us Together
By: Martin Sexton
Standard tuning, although Martin is usually tuned down 1/2 step
Verse
(3x023x)
(2x023x)
/ (1x023x)
(3x003x)
(x0543x)
(x3x030)
(3x0033)
(133010)
Intro
(album)
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e-----------------------|---------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
b---3------------3---3--|--------------3---3--|-----------3---3-|------------3-3P0--|
g---2--x-x---x-x-2-x-2--|----x-x---x---2-x-2--|-----x-0-x-2-x-0-|----x-------4-4P0--|
d---0--x---x---x-0-x-0--|----x---x---x-0-x-0--|-----x---x-0-x-0-|----x-------5-5P0--|
a------x-------x---x----|----x-----------x----|-----x---x---x---|----x-----0--------|
e---3--x-------x-3-x-2--|-2--x---------2-x-1--|-1-1-x---x-1-x-3-|-3--x-3/4----------|
x - stop strings percussively
Verse
Hold me tight don't say goodnight
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And I'll let you know that I care_______
Wait a little longer don't let me be
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And I'll comfort you from the storm_____
It's been a long night tomorrow's another day
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Call me when you find out the answer
And I'll hope and I'll pray
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To a power that will keep me from goin' insane in the meantime
Teenage lovers caught up in this dance
Pain's the price of this young romance
How was I such a young fool to know
Lord knows I got no direction from home
So I say this prayer
(Chorus)
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Take hold of me blessed powers that be
Love keep us together
(Repeat Chords)
Down with the rain came the news
That our wild ways gonna bring us a baby boy
Wash away all those innocent dreams
Now my whole world is turned upside-down on me
And here I pray
To some power they say's gonna keep me from goin' insane
I can't be strong unless I'm by your side
My weakness tells me to run for the hills
Responsibility beckons me
To think I dreamed your kiss would set me free
Well I've never been so wrong
Chorus
(Spoken)
There cries a child so deep in the night
He needs a father somebody to set things right
I am the one to love to hold him tight
To discount by love a serious oversight
Higher power has brought us together I know
She will keep us together wherever we go
Even if I live a thousand miles away
My love is pure and strong and here to stay