Story Behind The Song

Fatherly Advice in the Country setting of a Father telling his song how to catch a Girl to marry.

Lyrics

by David Van Sise
(VAMP)(A) (D)-(D) (A), (A) (D)-(D) (A), (G) (A)-(A) (G)(G)
Verse one:
(A) (G) (D) (A)
When I was a young man, My Daddy told me: "Son", (VAMP)
(A) (G) (D) (A)
"If you want a good girl, You gotta take and run!!," (VAMP)
(BRIDGE)
(G) (A)
"Listen to what I'm gonna say-hay-hay-hay,......"
(G) (E)
"This is how I'll make your runnin' pay,......"

(CHORUS)

(A) (G) (A)
(Just get a...) Moon--lit Night....................(VAMP)
(A) (G) (E)-(E)----(E)(E)(E)
Everything is gonna be-he-he all right,..................
(A) (G)
Once your baby's in (Your/ My) arms,

(A) (D) (D)(D)(D)
and she's holdin' you real tigh----hi-hi-hite,...........

(G) (D) (A)
On a Moon--lit Night....................(VAMP)

Second Verse:
(A) (G) (D) (A)
It was then I met her, Her name was Jannie lee,...(VAMP)
(A) (G) (D) (A)
I was Twenty One, And she was just Nineteen,......(VAMP)
(BRIDGE)

(G) (A)
And when we kissed it was like fi-ire,.............(VAMP)
(G) (E)(E)-(E)(E)(E)
We were both alive like wi-ires,...............(So on that...)

(CHORUS)
Third Verse:
(A) (G) (D) (A)
It's been Twenty years, and Jannie Lee's still mine,..(VAMP)
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We've been crazy 'bout each other, all this time,(VAMP)

(BRIDGE)

(G) (A)
And on this Dreamy night in ju-hu-hu-hune,............(VAMP)
(G) (E)-(E) (E)(E)(E)
We'll love each other 'neath the moon,..........(And it's a..)

(CHORUS)

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