Water From Another Time

F        C        G    C
New mown hay on a July morn
F                           
Grandkids running through the 
  F/A       C
knee-high corn
G                    C          F
Sunburned nose and a scabbed-up knee
       C                     G/B
From a rope on the white oak tree
       G                    
Just another summer's day at 
 C         F
Grandpa's farm
     C                        F
With Grandma's bucket hanging off my
 arm
              F                    
You know, the old pump's rusty but 
   C
it works fine
            G                  C
Primed with water from another time


[Chorus]
   F          C             G/B  
It don't take much, but you gotta
        C
 have some
    G                 Am       C
The old ways help the new ways come
     F                            
Just leave a little extra for the 
C       F
next in line
              F             C     
They're gonna need a little water 
     G           C
from another time


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[Verse 2]
F        C            G          C
Tattered quilt on the goose-down bed
       F                         
"Every stitch tells a story," my 
F/A     C
Grandma said
    G                     C       
Her mama's nightgown, her 
  F
grandpa's pants
        C                          
And the dress she wore to her high 
       G/B
school dance
    G                      
Now wrapped at night in its 
 C         F
patchwork scenes
  C                        F
I waltz with Grandma in my dreams
   F                  C
My arms, my heart, my life entwined
     G                      C
With water from another time


[Chorus]
   F          C             G/B  
It don't take much, but you gotta
        C
 have some
    G                 Am       C
The old ways help the new ways come
     F                            
Just leave a little extra for the 
C       F
next in line
              F             C     
They're gonna need a little water 
     G           C
from another time


[Verse 3]
F       C          G/B     C
Newborn cry in the morning air
    F                 F/A    C
The past & future are wedded there
     G                C      
This wellspring of my sons and 
  F
daughters:
    C                        G/B
The bone and blood of living waters
            G                   C 
And, though Grandpa's hand have 
      F
gone to dust,
     C               F
Like Grandma's pump: reduced to 
rust,
      F                 C
Their stories quench my soul and 
mind
     G                      C
Like water from another time


[Chorus]
   F          C             G/B  
It don't take much, but you gotta
        C
 have some
    G                 Am       C
The old ways help the new ways come
     F                            
Just leave a little extra for the 
C       F
next in line
              F             C     
They're gonna need a little water 
     G           C
from another time