This was made using the chord list for the same song on Chordify.com.
I just wanted to add this for people who don't use Chordify and because I don't use that site.
Credit to the chords,thus, are not mine.
The strumming pattern for this is always down as there technically isn't a real pattern.
B
At first I didn't want it
E B
Her daddy, well, we didn't fit
E
But I couldn't swing it
B F#
I was scared to do it alone
B
Seventeen and pregnant
D#m
Not what I had in mind
G#m
Her daddy was a farmer
E F#
But not the wealthy kind
G#m
I wanted to be a dancer
D#m
But not the kind I did for pay
G#m F# C#
Who was this new person
E F#
That was getting in my way?
C#m
I could've walked out
E
Left her for dead
B G#m
Cut her out with my own hands
E
But something in me
B F#
Was kicking and screaming to live
E
When the world's at stake
B
There are lives to save
E
And even though I shake
B
My hands at God I pray
E
Let her have a better life
B
Than I can provide
C#7
Lord have mercy on my soul
B E
As I try to do her right
B
It took a long, long time
D#m
To understand God's plan for me
G#m
He threw me down the river
E F#
Beat my flush in Kankakee
G#m
By the time my water broke
B D#m
I was deep in my own debt
G#m F# C#
But when I saw her face
E F#
It was easy to forget
C#m
I knew I had to
E
Get her away
B G#m
Take her to where my debt was paid
E
A new beginning
B F#
A place I'd never been
And never seen
E
When the world's at stake
B
All your dreams they change
E
And every step you take
B
Is for another's sake
E
And even if she grows to hate me
B
I won't change my course of heart
C# C#m7
Lord have mercy on my soul
B
If we ever grow apart
E
You think that I resent her very being?
B E
That maybe I regret her ever needing a mother
Is it wrong that I enjoy to right her?
B
I may be rash and overprotecting, not bitter
G# F# Fm F C#
I suppose I could be softer…
C#m
I can do better
E
Hold you closer
B
I'm learning that
G#m
As I grow older
E F# G#m
I'm the one to forgive
F#
When the world's at stake
C#
You give your life away
F#
And it feels so great
C#
To watch the one you saved
F#
Be the most adoring person
C#
Your mom has ever known
D#m7
Lord have mercy on my soul
C# F#
And let my dreams be all her own
C#
When my world's at stake...
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