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-transcribed by Greg Steele - 
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"I Told Him That My Dog Wouldn't Run" - Patty Larkin

Guitar: standard tuning, capo 5th fret

  C                             F      
I told him that my dog wouldn't run, 

  C                         F
I told him that I loved someone

                    C                            F
Yeah, that's my old car out there in the parking lot

I saw him when he first walked in, 
I thought it was a vision of him
He was looking like where he had been, looking kind of fragile

Chorus:
          Am         F           G
He said, "I read the Bible every day

                             Am
Tryin' to keep the demons at bay

      Am
Thank God when the sun goes down

G
I don't blow away"


My friend said, was he always like that? 
I said yeah, but he was never this bad
I remember us playing for nickels and dimes out on the corner

I asked him to marry me once, 
He told me he couldn't because
This would be all that there was...

Chorus

He was laughing but I didn't get the joke
He was dying to light up a smoke
And I wanted to cry in the flourescent light of the restaurant

I smiled and I got up to go, 
I was hoping for a goodbye to hold
But it was kind of like touching a ghost, so I ran when I walked out

Chorus

I got in my car and I drove, over the bridge to the coast
Wondering where does old love go...