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Date:  January 3, 2000

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     JACOB'S LADDER   Mark Wills

G

Jacob was a dirt poor farm boy

G                                                C

raised at the fork in the road, in a clapboard house

      Am                        D7

and Rachel was a land baron's daughter

Am                   D            G      G

born with a silver spoon in her mouth.  Her daddy said he wouldn't stand

G                                           C 

for Rachel to waste her life with a common man

Am     

He tried hard to keep them apart

         C                                    D

but you can't draw lines, in a young girl's heart

     G

So late one night by the harvest moon

Em

Jacob climbed a ladder up to Rachel's room

    G                                       Em 

He knew his place, it was right beside her step by step, up to her world

 C                                            G                            Am

head over heels for his brown eyed girl and gettin' caught didn't seem to matter

          C                       D                G

"Cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder.    Key change

      A 

It'll be five years september  since her daddy found a ladder

A                         D    Bm                           E7  

and a note on her window sill  He swore he'd never forgive them

       Bm             E                      A    A      

but nothin' melts a heart like a grandchild will Now she climbs up on his knee

 A                                          D        Bm

says "Grampa tell the story; the one about me"  He thinks back and his eyes 

              D                        E   A  

shine says listen child, once upon a time Late one night by the harvest moon

      F#m     

your daddy climbed a ladder to your momma's room

    A                                       F#m

He knew his place, it was right beside her Step by step, up to her world

D                                       A                              Bm

head over heals for my little girl and here you are, that's all that matters

         D                        E               A

'cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder

            D                        E               A

Oh, and an angel was waitin' at the top of Jacob's Ladder













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