[Intro ]
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She was softer than moonlight in her cinnamon hair 
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and her eyes always doting on me 
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and when I was a young man, oh I’d hold her right here 
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There was nothing more precious to me 

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I can still feel her essence, I can still taste her kiss 
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though my senses have long ago waned 
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It's the cruelest of thievery, that’s reduced me to this 
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  And left my mind, begging her name 

Chorus 
       Am        F                C          G 
And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave 
   Am           F          G      G 
of lovers, from yesterdays gone 
        Am           C               G          F       F 
and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart 
        C          G               F         C 
and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue. 

Break  
C  G  F  C 

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She was proud, she was fierce, She was laughter and tears 
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she was all that ever I'd need 
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she was right and I was wrong and then she was gone 
C        G            F     F 
left me alone here to bleed. 

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And I hear that she married; raised up a son 
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but for me it just weren't in the plans 
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and I can' t think of anything I might have done 
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to avoid or deserve where I am 

Chorus 
       Am        F                C          G 
And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave 
   Am           F          G      G 
of lovers, from yesterdays gone 
        Am           C               G          F       F 
and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart 
        C          G               F         C 
and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue. 

Break  
C  G  F  C   
C  G  F  C 

Bridge 
       Dm          Dm              G     G 
And if life is the memories we've made 
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does it end once they've withered away? 
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On a good day I'm back there, in the sun and the sand 
C             G       F     F 
care free and carry'n on 
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Ah, but mostly I sit here, with a blank empty stare 
C            G           F     F 
conscious of all that is gone 

Chorus 
       Am        F                C          G 
And my memory is fading, like the names on a grave 
   Am           F          G      G 
of lovers, from yesterdays gone 
        Am           C               G          F       F 
and I'm sitting here broken, with an ache in my heart 
        C          G               F         C 
and the name of my darlin', on the tip of my tongue. 

      C              G                F          C 
and a girl, who once loved me, on the tip of my, tongue.