Subject: CRD: I'll Go To My Grave (Statler Brothers) (update)
I'LL GO TO MY GRAVE LOVING YOU
written by Don Reid
sung by the Statler Brothers
from The Best Of (1975)
(guitar solo, 4 measures of A; then other instruments enter, 4 more
measures of A)
D
I'll go, I'll go to my grave
A
To my grave lovin' you (lovin' you) lovin' you
D
I'd give, I'd give all I've saved
E
I've saved lovin' you (lovin' you) lovin' you
A
& should, & should I live again
D B7
Even then, it won't end
A E
For I'll go, I'll go to my grave
D A
To my grave lovin' you (lovin' you) lovin' you
Bridge:
D
Oh to take his place forever
A
There's nothin' I wouldn't give
B7 E E7
I'd prove to you daily what a man really is
Verse 2:
I'll lay, I'll lay down my life
Down my life lovin' you (lovin' you) lovin' you
I'd work, I'd work day & night
Day & night lovin' you (lovin' you)
lovin' you, lovin' you
& when, & when life calls us both above
Honey you'll know that you'd been loved
For I'll go, I'll go to my grave
To my grave lovin' you (lovin' you) lovin' you
(repeat verse 2, with scat singing substituting for first 2 lines)
(coda, with scat singing):
A / / / 2 / / / D / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / A / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4
