Moving Oleta

INTRO: G   D  G

C       G            Em      D          C
Moving Oleta was the hardest thing he'd done
                             G
The nurse's saw an old woman crying
    Em                  D
But he saw the love of his life
    C
She don't know where she is
        Bm               C      Bm
But she knows this isn't home
          D          G
Love is a hard, hard road


C                            G
He met her in the summer of '37
     Em           D           C
In a brush arbour down on the Rush Creek shore
                                G
He loved her black hair and the mischief in her smile
       Em                D
But she won him with her eyes
        C
All the years and children grown
   Bm                 C      Bm
He still sees her the same
          D          G      C  D
Love is a hard, hard road


   C                        G
He woke up each morning and drove into town
   Em         D            C
He stayed all day 'til her dinner came
                                     G                                Em
Then he took her to her room, leaned on her wheelchair like a walker
                            D
He covered her with a quilt that she'd made
     C
Only Love and a couple of nurses
           Bm                   C      Bm
Helped the old man shoulder the load
          D          G
Love is a hard, hard road


BRIDGE:
            C
And he said, "They tell me this is all that's left
                                D/F#
Say, this hell on earth is best
                 G                              D/F#     C
I list all those reasons and I still don't understand it"
                   G             C
He cursed his body old and weak
                 G
Tears of failure burned his cheek
            D/F#            G                Em              C       Bm
And he said, "Oh, don't you know I prayed to die before this day"
          D          G
Love is a hard, hard road


          C                           G
There's a shadow much darker than the valley of death
         Em              D         C
When you fear the reaper might not come today
                              G                   Em
They line 'em up in La-z-boys out in the sunroom
                        D
The TV keeps the quiet away
    C
She can't recall his name
              Bm             C      Bm
And she's the only love he's known
          D          G       Bm
Love is a hard, hard road
          D         G          Bm
Love is a hard, hard road


OUTRO:
C       G            Em      D          G
Moving Oleta was the hardest thing he'd done