Key: E
Introduction: E G#m7 A7 B7
E G#m7 F#m B
Remember when we got the news
E C#7 F#m B
Confirming our worst fears
E Fº A Am
I said he wouldn?t make it six months
E B E
And others gave him a year
G#m7 F#m B
And sure enough last Saturday
E C#7 F#m B
We paid our last respects
E Fº A Am
He left us here still in this life
E B E D G#m
And he?s gone on to the next
A Am G#
I?d never seen him wear a tie
C#m F# G#
But he looked so natural, almost lifelike
A Am G#
The preacher spoke, his mother cried
C#m F#
When he said ?Son, you may now kiss the bride?
Everyone cheered, I thought how odd