Hey Ho, The Road Is Long Chords

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 There Amwas a mother Mary in DGresden

 Her mCan did not come home one Amnight

 She fell aCsleep holding her Gpillow so tightC C

 Then in the Ammorning, she had a Gphone call

 From the Cpolice, telling he wasAm dead

 He had been Cdrunk and had Gdrowned in the local Criver C

F7MHey ho,A the Groad is long

 We all nCeed to carry Amon

 I guess we F7Mneed a Asong to Gtake us through the dCay C

The same mother Mary in Dresden

She had a son aged 19

His name was Jim, and he was the pride of his mother

And one day he got a letter

From the army, saying: We need you in war

And there he went, a thousand times self-assured

Hey ho, the road is long

We all need to carry on

I guess we need a song to take us through the day

Six months passed and the mother

Had got a letter or two from her son

She had begun to prepare for his arrival

Then one day while she was doing laundry

An army car drove up on the lawn

And out stepped Jim’s best friend

And Mary burst into tears

Hey ho, the road is long

We all need to carry on

I guess we need a song to take us through the day

Now Susanna was the only

Child that Mary had left

She was a breath-taking living beauty of 15

On the night of her first prom

She disappeared without a sound

After seven months they still hadn’t heard a sound

Hey ho, the road is long

We all need to carry on

I guess we need a song to take us through the day

 Heart Emheavy as a sAmtone

EmMary was aloAmne

 She wEment down on her knAmees

 And pF7Mrayed tAo the Lord, PGlease

EmI am alAmone

EmAll my birds have fAmlown

 AndEm now I fly to Amyou

 Don’t you Gdare fail me, tGoo!

Hey ho, the road is long

We all need to carry on

I guess we need a song to take us through the day

Hey ho, the road is long

To carry on you will need a song

To cheer you up and to remind you things will be fine