Capo 4th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

If you don’t get in the water, you’re never gonna learn to swim.

He said that a snake is just as scared of you as you are of it.

He could tell by the moon when the fish would bite,

Seems there was nothing that he didn’t know,

and as a kid I believed, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

Verse 2

He talked Daddy into letting me have my first car.

I thought I was really something till Becky Thompson broke my heart.

That first taste of love nearly did me in,

Getting over her was slow,

And I knew someday I would, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

Chorus

He said, life is made for you to live,

The best love is the love that you give,

There’ll be times when you want to hold on, but you gotta let go.

And I live by those words, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

Solo

(Slow it down and strum low volume.)

Verse 3

I promised him I wouldn’t cry when it was his time to leave.

That’s the only promise I made him I couldn’t keep.

He smiled from his bed and said we’ll meet again

Somewhere down the road.

And I believe, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.

Repeat Chorus 2 x’s:

Bridge

Yeah, and I still believe,

Grandpa told me so.

Grandpa told me so.

I still believe.

Tag:

Grandpa told me so.

I still believe.

Extro: