Tiny Broken Heart

Alison Krauss with Dan Tyminski

Written by Eddie Hill, Charlie Louvin, Ira Louvin

Key of G · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

G                                        C
He was just a little farm lad so busy at play
     G                                D7
With his little play mate outside the gate
   G                                              C
He stopped to watch a truck that was parking next door
       G           D7        G
At the home of his tiny play mate

Verse 2

     D7                        G
Then he saw his daddy watching too
                          C              D7
As the men swiftly walked to the cottage door
   G                                           C
He knew they were strangers that came from the town
G          D7         G
Men he had never seen before

Verse 3

                                               C
They soon went to work when he heard his daddy say
    G                    D7
Our neighbors are moving today
      G                              C
Oh no he cried dear God don't let it be
     G             D7         G
They can't take my sweetheart away

Verse 4

  D7                 G
I know Dad you don't understand
                     C                D7
How a heart so young could conceive a plan
         G                            C
I'm only 7 now but it's just like you say
G          D7            G
Daddy some day I'll be a man

Verse 5

                                                  C
The man who owns the farm where your playmates do live
   G                         D7
He told me it has to be this way
    G                                        C
For winter time has come and the work is all done
       G            D7     G
That's why they are moving today

Verse 6

    D7                          G
Let us buy the farm so they can stay
                           C               D7
And give them all the toys that dear Santa gave
    G                                           C
And give them all my pennies in my little piggy bank
G                       D7      G
Pennies that my darling help me save