Intro: G  D  Am7  C (x2)

Verse 1

G                  D
I pulled into the shopping center
    Am7               C                   G           D  Am7  C
And saw a little boy wrapped around the legs of his mother
      G                 D
Like ice cream melting they embraced
Am7              C                   G     D  Am7  C
Years of bad decisions running down her face
G                      D                     Am7
All morning I'd been thinking my life’s so hard
      C                       G    D            Am7  C
And they wore everything they own, living in a car
     G        D               Am7   C
I wanted to tell him it would be okay
              G          D           Am7    C
But I just got in my suburban and I drove away


CHORUS

G    D            Am7           C              G   D  Am7  C  G
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
D             Am7           C         G     D   Am7  C
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry

Verse 2 

    G                  D
Keep having this dream about my old man
    Am7                      C        G    D  Am7  C
I'm ten years old, and he's holding my hand
      G                   D                    Am7
We're talking on the front porch watching the sun go down
C                   G              D                   Am7           C
But it was just a dream he was a slave to his job and couldn't be around
G         D            Am7     C
So many things I want to say to him
           G         D                        Am7      C
But I just placed a rose on his grave, and I talked to the wind

CHORUS

G    D            Am7           C              G  D  Am7  C  G
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
D             Am7          C          G         D        Am7  C
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry


BRIDGE – INSTRUMENTAL FILL     Bb   F   Dm  C  Bb  F  D

Verse 3 

      G                   D
I'm sitting here with my kids and my wife
      Am7           C                 G   D  Am7  C
And everything that I hold dear in my life
 G                     D
We say grace and we thank the lord
    Am7              C
Got so much to be thankful for
         G         D               Am7                C
Then it's up the stairs and off to bed and my little girl says
G     D          Am7      C
I haven't had my story yet
G            D             Am7          C            G
Everything weighing on my mind disappears just like that
                     D                   Am7(Strummed once)
When she lifts her head off her pillow and says...I love you dad

CHORUS

D            Am7           C               G  D  Am7  C  G
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
D            Am7           C          G    D   Am7  C
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
G   D            Am7           C               G  D  Am7  C  G
And I don't know why they say grown men don't cry
D            Am7           C          G         D        Am7  C
I don't know why they say grown men don't cry, don't cry