"Love, Me" - by Collin Raye (1991)
Words and Music by Skip Ewing & Max T. Barnes

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[Intro]

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[Verse]

          
I read a note 

            
my grandma wro

             
te back in nin

             
eteen twenty-t

     
hree.
          
Grandpa kept i

            
t in his coat,

           
 and he showed

            
 it once to me

  
.     He said,
          
"Boy, you migh

            
t not understa

             
nd, but a long

             
, long time ag


o,
          
Grandma's dadd

            
y didn't like 

             
me none, but I

             
 loved your Gr

          
andma so."


           
We had this cr

           
azy plan to me

            
et and run awa

     
y together.
           
Get married in

           
 the first tow

           
n we came to, 

          
and live forev

   
er.
          
But nailed to 

            
the tree where

             
 we were suppo

             
sed to meet, i

   
nstead
          
Of her, I foun

            
d this letter,

             
 and this is w

           
hat it said:


[Chorus]

             
If you get the

            
re before I do

            
, don't give u

     
p on me.
             
I'll meet you 

             
when my chores

     
 are through;
           
I don't know h

        
ow long I'll b

  
e.
             
But I'm not go

            
nna let you do

            
wn, darling wa

       
it and see.
             
And between no

             
w and then, ti

            
ll I see you a

 
gain,
          
I'll be loving

            
 you.  Love, m

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[Verse]

            
I read those w

/          
ords just hour

             
s before my Gr

             
andma passed a

 
way,
             
In the doorway

         
 of a church w

            
here me and Gr

             
andpa stopped 

     
to pray.
          
I know I'd nev

            
er seen him cr

            
y in all my fi

      
fteen years;
          
But as he said

            
 these words t

            
o her, his eye

              
s filled up wi

       
th tears.


[Chorus]

             
If you get the

            
re before I do

            
, don't give u

     
p on me.
             
I'll meet you 

             
when my chores

     
 are through;
           
I don't know h

        
ow long I'll b

  
e.
             
But I'm not go

            
nna let you do

            
wn, darling wa

       
it and see.
             
And between no

             
w and then, ti

            
ll I see you a

 
gain,
          
I'll be loving

            
 you.  Love, m

    
e.
             
Between now an

             
d then, till I

         
 see you again

,
          
I'll be loving

      ( 
 you.  Love, m


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