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Love is a secret
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That everyone knows
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Love is a chime that rings
F#m E
When the wind blows
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Keep yourself honest
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So it can grow
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'Cause when you've lost it
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Your heart turns cold
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Isn't it so?
(let ring) A
I remember the first girl
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That I really loved
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However it hurt her
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She loved me enough
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I wanted to wander
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She knew I would go
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She shed a tear knowin'
F#m E
That I'd be alone
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Wasn't it so?
F#m E A
Painfully I was most aware how
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Very unfair it was
F#m
Leavin' her suddenly just like that
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Goin' God knows where I was
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Chasing a rainbow
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She understood
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She was a prophet
F#m E
She told me I should
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Follow my heart
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Like I'd been told
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Seek out your vision
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Before you get old
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Isn't it so?
(solo) A E F#m E
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Now many years later
I finally see
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How much she did love me
F#m E
She set me free
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Her last few dollars
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Put gas in my car
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She said "Promise to write me
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Wherever you are"
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From out on the highway
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I think I wrote twice
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I always remembered
F#m D E
Her simple advice
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Love is a secret
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That everyone knows
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Try too hard to hide it
F#m E
It never will show
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Isn't it so
(solo) A E F#m E
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How did she know?