Love Like An Immigrant - Carrie Newcomer Chords
Chords: C, F, Dm7, Em, G
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[Intro]
C F C F
[Verse]
C F C
My grandpa came over on the boat
F
His voice was thick with the old world and smoke
Dm7 Em F G
And ran in Chicago, ‘til he met my grandma
Dm7 Em F G C F
Then he moved to South Bend with his new fourteen year old bride
[Verse]
C F
Mamma and Louie and the rest of the family
C F
Lived in a duplex next to my great grandma Baldoni
Dm7 Em F G
And believed in the hopes that can grow in a country
Dm7 Em F G C F
Even after my grandma and grandpa went their separate ways
[Chorus]
Dm7 Em F C
He said, “Love who you are, love what it's meant
Dm7 Em F C F C F
Live out your love like a new immigrant”
[Verse]
C F
My dad drove a milk truck before he was fourteen
C F
He came back from Korea in Nineteen Fifty-Three
Dm7 Em F G
Met up with my mother, introduced by his sister
Dm7 Em F G C F C F
They put a dime in the jukebox, took a turn on the dance floor
[Chorus]
Dm7 Em F C
He said, “Love who you are, love what it's meant
Dm7 Em F C F
Live out your love like a new immigrant”
[Verse]
C F
I came along after one, before another
C F
I grew up on the Beatles and Jack Kennedy's murder
Dm7 Em F G
I went looking for something in more than one country
Dm7 Em F G C F
I fell in love once or twice, broke my heart, but I'd try it again
[Verse]
C F
So this is the new world, not the old world
C F
Let me lie close beside you and whisper, "Have you heard?
Dm7 Em F G
The sound of the singing from some bright new country
Dm7 Em F G C F
And catch, it's been calling us home to it lately"
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