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It's Over
Words & Music by Jimmie Rodgers
Recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, 1966*
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If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
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This hour of love we share would always be
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There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light
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And make us realize our night is o - ver.
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When you walk away from me, there is no place to put my hand
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Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
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I watch you walk away -- somehow I have to let you go
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Now it's o - ver.
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If you knew just how I really feel, you might return and yet
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There are so many times that people have to love and then forget;
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Oh, there might have been a way;
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Somehow I have to force myself to say, "It's o - ver."
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So I turn my back, turn my collar to the wind,
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Move along in silence trying not to think at all;
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I set my feet before me, walk the silent street before me,
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Now it's o - ver.
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If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
AM7 A7 A7/6 A7
This hour of love we share would always be
D9 Dm Dm7 Asus4 A
There'd be no coming day to shine a morning light
Asus4 G E7 A6 A
And make us realize our night is o - ver.
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It's o - ver.
Although Elvis Presley would record the song in 1973 -- and in all honesty, it's probably his version that is better remembered now -- I don't believe either he (or Eddy Arnold, who recorded it two years after Rodgers) ever captured the feel of the song as well as the original.
The lyric and guitar chord transcriptions on this site are the work of The Guitarguy and are intended for private study, research, or educational purposes only. Individual transcriptions are inspired by and and based upon the recorded versions cited, but are not necessarily exact replications of those recorded versions.
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