Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 E -X- -X- -X- -X- -X- -1- -3-

A -0- -1- -3- -X- -X- -3- -2-

D -2- -3- -2- -0- -0- -3- -0-

G -0- -3- -0- -2- -2- -2- -0-

B -1- -3- -1- -3- -3- -1- -0-

E -0- -1- -0- -2- -1- -1- -3-

Intro

I pulled into the shopping center

 And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother

 Like ice cream melting they embraced

Years of bad decisions running down her face

All morning I'd been thinking my lifes's so hard

 And they wore everthing they own, living in a car

 I wanted to tell him it would be okay

 But I just got in my suburban and I drove away

Chorus

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

 Keep having this dream about my old man

 I'm ten years old, and he's holding my hand

 We're talking on the front porch watching the sun go down

But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and couldn't be around

So many things I wanna say to him

 But I just placed a rose on his grave, and I talked to the wind

Chorus

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry

 Instramental:

 I'm sitting here with my kids and my wife

 And everything that I hold dear in my life

 We say grace and we thank the lord

 Got so much to be thankful for

 Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says

I haven't had my story yet

Everything weighing on my mind dissapears just like that

 When she lifts her head off her pillow and says...I love you dad

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry

Outro

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