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Beauty is the song I wrote about an elderly couple. One softly passes away one night. This is the song of that journey for the one left living:

BEAUTY

NO CAPO
This can be picked or strummed.  I do whatever, dependent on my mood 😉

Chords – C, D, G, Em, Am, D7

VERSE 1
G                                          D                                    G
He stops to smell her scent, just one last time
C                                   D                       G
Candy sweet with just a hint of wine
C                                      D                        G
Married sixty years, yet he has to find
Em                           D                         G
A sign she loved him, she’ll be fine

CHORUS
Am      D             Em
The night is taking her away
Am                D                           Em
As he holds her in his arms, her breathing slows
C                     D                      G
The angels will come to take her home
C                D7        G
To the place where beauty’s kept

VERSE 2
G                           D                          G
Her hands are cold, how will he find the warmth?
C          D              G
As his heart is fallin’ to the floor
C                    D                        G
Mixin’ with the moonlight and the dust
C        Em                    D
And with things he doesn’t wanna know

CHORUS
Am      D             G
The night is taking her away
Am                 D                          Em
As he holds her in his arms, her breathing slows
C                    D                       G
The angels will come to take her home
C                 D7         G
To the place where beauty’s kept

Em, D, Em

BRIDGE
C                    D                            Em
Does she even miss him now she’s gone
C                      D                    Em
Has their picture faded from her mind
C                      D                      G
Without her love beside him, he is blind
Am              D
As tears fall down
G
Stain his skin
Em
They make no sound
C       D                 G
Just like leaves falling to the ground

Em, D

VERSE 3
G                          D                                 G
Touching her face, he can’t help but cry her name
C              D                                     G
Somehow, he thought their love would last
C                        D                     G
Yet suddenly he’s forced to face a truth
C             D                    G
That life goes by way too fast
Em                D               G
That life goes by way too fast

Em, D

CHORUS
Am         D            Em
The night had taken her away
Am         D                        Em
In his arms, he gently kissed her face
C                     D                       Em
The angels had come to take her home
C                          D7         G
To the place where beauty’s kept
C                   D                  G
Where all her devastation, is restored
C                                  D                      G
Where all of those she’s lost, she’s gonna find
Interlude – D
C                          D7          G
To the place where beauty’s kept
C                           D7        G
To the place where beauty’s kept
C                  D7                             G
To the place where she will wait for him

Em, D, G

© Kim Friesen