Capo 4th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(Ditty)twice

 I work down at Ashbury Hills, Minimum wage but it pays the bills cleaning

 floors, and leading hymms on sunday. Katherine Davis room 303, the sweetest

 soul you ever could meet. I bring her morning coffee everyday.

 She calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son, tells me get washed up for

 supper 'fore your daddy gets home. She goes on about the weather and how she

can't believe it's already 1943. She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by

(Ditty)

me

 Shetalksabout clothesontheline in the summer air, Christmas morning and

 Thanksgiving prayer.. and storiesof thefamilythat I never had. Well

sometimesI find myself wishing I'd been there

 When She calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son, tells me get washed up for

 supper 'fore your daddy gets home. She goes on about the weather and how she

can't believe it's already 1943. She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by

me

 There's a small white cross inArlington, reads Raymond Davis '71. Until she

 can see his face again, I'm gonna fill in the BEST I can....

 When She calls me Raymond. She thinks I'm her son, tells me get washed up for

 supper 'fore your daddy gets home. She goes on about the weather and how she

can't believe it's already 1943. She calls me Raymond, and that's alright by

me

  (Ditty)twice (slowly strum out on )

She call's me Raymond,mmm and that's alright..... by me.