I Hope You've Learned

Ricky Skaggs

Written by Bill Carrigan and Eugene Butler

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G
I've been away for just a year
                         D7
Have you forgotten me my dear
                 G        C   G
The judge said I must pay the cost
        D7                G
I never knew how much I'd lost

Verse 2

           C           G
Until they sent me far away
                          D7
Where each minute seems a day
          G            C  G
But maybe someday I'll be free
            D7                G
Will you be waiting there for me

Verse 3

I'm in this cell because of you
                             D7
The crime I did you drove me to
           G                C   G
My jealous heart just could not stand
           D7           G
To see you with another man

Verse 2

           C           G
Until they sent me far away
                          D7
Where each minute seems a day
          G            C  G
But maybe someday I'll be free
            D7                G
Will you be waiting there for me

Verse 4

I hope someday that you will learn
                         D7
And brokenhearted you'll return
           G       C            G
But listen darling please don't wait
          D7               G
For maybe then will be too late