I Just Came Home To Count The Memories Chords
by Cal Smith
I Just Came Home To Count The Memories by Cal Smith is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am, G7 and C7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C F C
C
I saw roses choking in the grass
F C
Flaking paint and a broken window pane
Am
A mailbox barely standing by the driveway
G7
I can almost see the name
F
A swing set and forgotten toys where
C
Little boys and girls played happy games
G7
Everything I gave a damn about is gone
C
But the memory still remains
F
The old man from the house across the street asked
C
How's it going and I said fine
Am
The expression on his face would make me think
G7
He could almost read my mind
F
That Johnson boy from down the road was asking
C
If the kids could come and play
G7
Lord I wish I could have told him yes but I
C
Just said I guess son not today
C7 F
I just came home to count the memories
G7 C
That I've been counting in my mind
F
I just came home to count the memories
G7 C
From a better day and time
Birds that sang their pretty songs
F C
Aren't singing like they did when you were here
Am
Cause there's no happiness in music if somebody
G7
Isn't close enough to care
F
I picked a ragged daisy from it's home
C
Out in the corner of the yard
G7
She loves me she loves me not now I don't
C
Have to wonder anymore
C7 F
I just came home to count the memories
G7 C
That I've been counting in my mind
F
I just came home to count the memories
G7 C
I guess it's time to say goodbye