If Youll Let Me Love You

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 14:16:34 -0400
From: Jeff Townsend 

 
Subject: s/smalltown_poets/if_you_let_me_love_you.crd

Artist: Smalltown Poets
Song: If You Let Me Love You
Submitter: Casey Townsend
Transcriber: Bert Hatch
>From the self titled album: Smalltown Poets
Copyright 1997 on Forefront records
The beat of this song is just a steady down-up-down-up stroke with mutes at every third stroke:  \/ = down 
/\ = up  \(mute)/ down & mute
(i.e. \/  /\  \(mute)/ /\  \/  /\ \(mute)/)
Play comfortably fast

			verse


 G             
 D       
 Em         
 C     
 G    
 D  
 Em  
 C
I don't know what to do to ease your mind

 G             
 D       
 Em       
 C       
 G    
 D  
 Em  
 C
Don't have a perfect word to make it fine

 G          
 D      
 Em     
 C       
 G
I'm not so qualified for sympathy

 D       
 Em       
 C      
 G
Still I am not without love

(second verse is the same as the first)

Psalm #4 falls on your grieving ear,
Yes I believe the peace of Christ is here
And I'm here in His name,
You'd do the same, you'd do the same, you'd do the same

			Chorus

 C              
 G
If you let me close

 C        
 D    
 Em    
 C
Closer than a brother

 Em              
 D                        
 Cadd9
If you let me love you we'll sit here and cry

 G  
 D     
 Em      
 C      
 G
[:         If you let me love you :]

			Bridge

 D
Never failing; ever hoping

 Am
Seeking to preserve

 D
It always is giving

 Am
Often beyond words

 D
And when there's nothing left to

 Am
Say, love has a voice,

 D		
 Am
So in sorrow, and in heart ache

 C
There's a greater joy.
(repeat first verse and chorus)