Berg Matraca - Back When We Were Beautiful guitar tab

Matraca Berg Back When We Were Beautiful written by Matraca Berg

Kris Wilkinson viola

Tammy Rogers viola

Craig Nelson bass

Reese Wynans piano

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I guess you had to be there, she said, you had to be

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She handed me a yellowed photograph and then said, see

This was my greatest love,

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My one and only love and this is me

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Back when we were beautiful beautiful, see

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I don't feel very different, she said, I know it's strange

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I guess I've gotten used to these little aches and pains

But I still love to dance,

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You know we used to dance the night away

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Back when we were beautiful beautiful yeah

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I hate it when they say I'm aging gracefully

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I fight it every day, I guess they never see

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I don't like this at all, what's happening to me

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To me

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But I really love my grandkids, she said, they're sweet to hold

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They would've have loved their grandpa, those awful jokes he told

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You know, sometimes for a laugh the two of us would act like we were

old

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Back when we were beautiful, beautiful, yeah

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But I guess you had to be there

From Matraca Berg "Sunday Morning To Saturday Night"

Rising Star Records 1997

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