Love Without End

Verse 1
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I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye
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Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why
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When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed
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Then stood there on those trembling knees and waited for the worst

Chorus
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He said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
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A secret that my daddy said was just between us
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He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then
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It's a love without end, Amen; it's a love without end, Amen"
Verse 2
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When I became a father in the spring of '81
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There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son
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And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end
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I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him
Chorus
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I said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
                                               G
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
          F                  G                  C               F
I said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then
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It's a love without end, Amen; it's a love without end, Amen"
Verse 3
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Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates
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When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake
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If they know half the things I've done they'll never let me in
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Then a somewhere from the other side and I heard these words again
Chorus
           D                         G               D
They said let me tell you a secret about a father's love
                                               A
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
          G                  A                  D               G
You see, Daddies don't just love their children every now and then
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It's a love without end, Amen; it's a love without end, Amen