Poems, Prayers And Promises

Words & music by John Denver
from Poems, Prayers and Promises (1971)



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1) I've been lately thinking about    my life's time
2) Days they pass so quickly now, the nights are seldom long

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1) all the things I've done and how it's been,
2) time around me whispers when it's cold.

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1) and I can't help believin' in     my       own    mind
2)     The changes somehow frightens me, still I have to smile

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1) I know I'm gonna hate to see it end.
2) it turns me on to think of growing old.

   D                                           G(add A)         D
1) I've seen a lot of sunshine                 slept out in the rain
2) It's tho' my life's been good to me there's still so much to do

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1) spent a night or two all on my own
2) so many things my mind has never known

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1) I've known my lady's pleasures had myself some friends
2) I'd like to raise a fam'ly I'd like to sail    away

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1) spent a time or two in my own home.
2) dance across the mountains on the moon.

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Ref.) I have to say it now it's been good life all in all,
		   D              Bm                  Em
      it's really fine to have a chance to hang around.
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      and lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire,
		   D                  Bm           Em           A7
      while all my friends and my old lady sit and pass a pipe around
		  G                     Fm
      and talk of poems and prayers and promises
	  G                D                            Dmaj7
      and things that we believe in, how sweet it is to love someone,
	  G              A         G                    Fmaj7
      how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday
      Em           D                         Dmaj7
      what about tomorrow and what about our dreams
		  G           A        D  G  D
      and all the memories we share,

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Em      : 222xxx