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Help Me Understand by Hank Williams - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            (3/4 measure)

[Intro]
| D | D | A7 | D |

[Verse 1]
D                             G            D
  A little girl prayed at the close of the day
                              A7
Cause her daddy had gone far away
   D                     G          D
On her little face was a look of despair
                                A7           D
I stood there and listened, and I heard this prayer

[Verse 2]
   G                   D
My mama says daddy has brought us to shame
        G                D           A7
And I'm never no more to mention his name
     D                       G          D
Lord take me and lead me and hold to my hand
                        A7      D
Oh heavenly Father help me understand

[Bridge]

(Spoken)
                                         G
You know friends I wonder how many homes are broken tonight
   D
'n Just how many tears are shed, by some little word of anger
                                 A7
That never should have been said
                                          D
I'd like to tell you a story, of a family I once knew
                     G                                     D
We'll call them Mary and William and their little daughter Sue
                                                      A7
Now Mary was just a plain mother and Bill was just a usual dad
D                                 D7                       G
 And they had their little family quarrels, like everybody else
G
But neither one really got mad
D                                       G
Then one day something happened, it was nothing of course
                       D                      A7
But one word led to another and the last word led to a divorce
D
 Now here were two grown up people, who failed to use common sense
G                  D                                          G
 They strengthened their own selfish pride, at little Sue's expense
D                    A7
 You know she didn't ask to be brought to this world
D
To drift from pillar to post
        G                                               D
But a divorce never stops to consider the ones it hurts the most
                 G
There's be a lot more honest loving, in this wicked ole world today
D                    A7
If just a few parted parents, could hear little Sue say:

[Outro]
D                       G          D
Take me and lead me and hold to my hand
                         A7          D
Oh heavenly Father, help me understa-and
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