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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 (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)     Em (022000@1)       C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1)CI (x32010@1)don't know what to do to ease your mind
G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)     Em (022000@1)     C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)Em (022000@1)CDon't (x32010@1)have a perfect word to make it fine
G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)    Em (022000@1)   C (x32010@1)     GI'm (320003@1)not so qualified for sympathy
D (xx0232@1)     Em (022000@1)     C (x32010@1)    GStill (320003@1)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 (x32010@1)            GIf (320003@1)you let me close
C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)  Em (022000@1)  CCloser (x32010@1)than a brother
Em (022000@1)            D (xx0232@1)                      Cadd9If (x32030@1)you let me love you we'll sit here and cry
G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)   Em (022000@1)    C (x32010@1)    G[: (320003@1)        If you let me love you :]

			Bridge
DNever (xx0232@1)failing; ever hoping
AmSeeking (x02210@1)to preserve
DIt (xx0232@1)always is giving
AmOften (x02210@1)beyond words
DAnd (xx0232@1)when there's nothing left to
AmSay, (x02210@1)love has a voice,
D (xx0232@1)AmSo (x02210@1)in sorrow, and in heart ache
CThere's (x32010@1)a greater joy.
(repeat first verse and chorus)