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From: Ken Arnold 
Words and music: Pat Alger and Ralph Murphy
Performer: Kathy Mattea 
Album: Lonesome Standard Time

Seeds

Intro:    CaddG   F    C   Am7    G   F   C   G   C   F   C

    C               G
Sometimes I stop on my way home
    F                  C
And watch the children play
      F              C
And I wonder if they wonder
Am                   G7
What they'll be some day
C                 G7
Some will dream a big dream
    F                C
And make it all come true
      F            C
While others go on dreaming
   Am                   G
Of things they'll never do.

Chorus:

               F     G        C      F   C
We're all just seeds in God's hands.
             G  C  G               Am
We start the same     but where we land
Am7          F       G                  Am
Is sometimes fertile soil and sometimes sand.
Am7            F     G        C
We're all just seeds in God's hands.


Interlude:    CaddG   F    C   Am7    G   F   C   G   C   F   C

  C                  G         
I saw a a friend the other day
F               C
  I hardly recognized.
     F             C
He'd done a lot of living
          Am                 G
Since I'd last looked in his eyes.
   C                G7
He told his tale of how he'd failed
    F                 C
The lessons he'd been taught.
       F            C
But he offered no excuses
       F                 G
And he left me with this thought.

Repeat Chorus
           
           F             C                F
And as I'm standing at a crossroads once again
      Am                   G              F
I'm reminded we're all the same when be begin
                 G  C  G
And in the end...

Repeat Chorus

               F     G        C
We're all just seeds in God's hands.

Ending:    CaddG   F    C   Am7    G   F   C   G    C   F   C

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