E A
An old man gazed at a photograph
B E
In a locket he'd worn for years,
E A
His nephew then asked him the reason
F#m B
why that picture had caused him tears,
B
“Come listen,” he said,
E
“and I'll tell you, lad,
A B
a story that's strange but true:
E A F#m
Your father and I at the school one day
E B E
met two little girls in blue.”
[Chorus]
E A E
“Two little girls in blue, lad,
E A
two little girls in blue.
B E
They were sisters, we were brothers,
F#m B
and learned to love them true.
E
One little girl in blue, lad,
A F#m
Who won your father's heart,
B
Became your mother,
E A
I married the other and
E B E
now we have drifted apart.”
[Verse]
E A
“That picture is one of those girls, he said;
B E
To me she was once a wife.
E
I thought her unfaithful,
A
and we quarreled, lad,
F#m B
Then parted that night for life.
B E
A fancy of jealousy wronged a heart,
F#m B
A heart that was good and true.
E A F#m
No better girls ever lived than they,
E B E
Those two little girls in blue."
[Chorus]
E A E
“Two little girls in blue, lad,
E A
two little girls in blue.
B E
They were sisters, we were brothers,
F#m B
and learned to love them true.
E
One little girl in blue, lad,
A F#m
Who won your father's heart,
B
Became your mother,
E A
I married the other and
E B E
now we have drifted apart.”
