Jimmie Rodgers - Why Theres A Tear In My Eye Chords

[Intro]
D   A   D
 
 
[Verse 1]
D                        G
I once loved a beautiful maiden
   D                       A
As fair as the blue skies above
         D                      G
And each night as we wondered together
    A                           D
The moon seemed to smile on our love
   G                        D
We vowed to be true to each other
                              A
And nothing could cause us to part
       D                           G
But we never once dreamed that the future
     A             D
Held only a broken heart
                                  G
Then there came the night when we parted
   D                             A
We quarrelled as all sweethearts do
      D                         G
And I learned what it was to be jealous
          A                      D
When they told me our love was untrue
    G                           D
She told me she had always been faithful
                                  A
She swore that her love could not die
    D                     G
And then when I did not believe her
    A                         D
She kissed me and told me goodbye
 
 
[Chorus]
D                A
Oh-de-lay-ee-oh, de-lay-ee
      D
Yo-de-lay-ee
 
 
[Interlude]
G   D   A   D
 
 
[Verse 2]
D                      G
I found I had falsely accused her
    D                        A
And went back to make her my bride
    D                           G
And there in the door stood her mother
    A                         D
She told me my sweetheart had died
  G                        D
I went in and knelt down beside her
                              A
And there in the hush of that room
  D                          G
I prayed that my maker would take me
    A                        D
And send my soul down to its doom
                           G
So now I have told you the reason
        D                   A
There's always a tear in my eye
        D                       G
Through long weary years I've repented
        A                       D
But I'm longing to lay down and die
      G                    D
And I wonder if I'll be forgiven
                           A
When I face the master someday
      D                     G
And I wonder if I'll see my sweetheart
        A                    D
On that beautiful shore far away
 
 
[Chorus]
D                A
Oh-de-lay-ee-oh, de-lay-ee
      D
Yo-de-lay-ee
 
 
[Outro]
G   D   A   D
X