Billy Gilman - Elisabeth guitar chord

Elisabeth

By Billy Gilman

Capo 4

This is the easy way to play this.

You can capo on 1 and play in the key of F…

D Bm7

Namesake to Elisabeth, her daddy's pride and joy

G

Baptized in her mama's tears soon after she was born

D Bm7

'Cause the doctor said she'd never live to see her sweet sixteen

G D G Em

It's a miracle she beat those odds and there's still no promise she will see tomorrow

B A G

It makes me wonder how life can give someone so much and take so much away

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D Bm7 G

Oh, Elisabeth, you're a teacher you're a saint

A G

And I'm so glad you came to us

D Bm7 G

Elisabeth, you make the world a better place

Bm A E7

With the kindness of your smile and your love

G D

And your beauty will live on and on, Elisabeth

She might not ever marry or hold a baby of her own

Things we all take for granted are the things she may never know

But she believes there's always hope and that's all she really has

So she walks through life with passion and with dignity and class

And when she cries, she cries in silence but never for herself

She cries for everybody else, for everybody else

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