“Grandpa Told Me So”
Written By: Mark Alan Springer & James Dean Hicks
Recorded By: Kenny Chesney
Transcribed by Josh Shuler (Superfarmer980@yahoo.com)
Capo 4th Fret
Intro: D G D G
Verse 1:
D
G
If you don’t get in the water, you’re never gonna learn to swim.
D G
He said that a snake is just as scared of you as you are of it.
Bm A
He could tell by the moon when the fish would bite,
D A G
Seems there was nothing that he didn’t know,
A D G D G
and as a kid I believed, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.
Verse 2:
D G
He talked Daddy into letting me have my first car.
D G
I thought I was really something till Becky Thompson broke my heart.
Bm A
That first taste of love nearly did me in,
D A G
Getting over her was slow,
A D
And I knew someday I would, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.
Chorus:
G D
He said, life is made for you to live,
A D
The best love is the love that you give,
G A Bm
There’ll be times when you want to hold on, but you gotta let go.
G A D
And I live by those words, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.
Solo:
G D G
(Slow it down and strum low volume.)
Verse 3:
D G
I promised him I wouldn’t cry when it was his time to leave.
D G
That’s the only promise I made him I couldn’t keep.
Bm A
He smiled from his bed and said we’ll meet again
D A G
Somewhere down the road.
G A D
And I believe, ‘cause Grandpa told me so.
Repeat Chorus 2 x’s:
Bridge:
G
Yeah, and I still believe,
A D G
Grandpa told me so.
D
Grandpa told me so.
G D G D G
I still believe.
Tag:
D
Grandpa told me so.
G
I still believe.
Extro:
D G . . . . (Play till end)
