Temporary Home

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TEMPORARY HOME
By: Carrie Underwood, Luke Laird, Zac Maloy
Carrie Underwood
Key: C

-4   4   5  -4  -4  5-44
Lit-tle boy, 6 years old
4 -5  -5  -5   5   -4 -4  4 -3  4
A lit-tle too used to be-in' a-lone
4  -4  4  5-4 -4  -4  5-4  4  -4  4    5
An-oth-er new mom and dad, an-oth-er school
5  -5  -5   5    -4  -4 -4  4  -3  4
An-oth-er house that'll nev-er be home
 6    6   4   4   6  -6  6   -4    5   -5 5
When peo-ple ask him how he likes this place
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He looks up and says with 
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a smile up-on his face:
  4   4  4   4  -4  5  4  6
"This is my tem-por-ar-y home
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It's not where I be-long
-6   6    5   -4    4   -6   6   5     -4
Win-dows and rooms that I'm pass-in' through
 4   -4  5   4   6
This is just a stop, 
4   4   4  -4   5   -6  6  5-4
on the way to where I'm go-ing
 4  -4  4   7  -7-6 -6 6 -6 -6
I'm not a-fraid be-cause I know 
 4   -4 5  -5   5  -4 5 5-44
this is my Tem-por-ar-y Home"
5-4-44-3”4
Mm

Young mom on her own
She needs a little help, got nowhere to go
She's lookin' for a job, lookin' for a way out
Because a half-way house will never be a home
At night she whispers to her baby girl
Someday we'll find a place here in this world

"This is our temporary home
It's not where we belong
Windows and rooms that we're passin' through
This is just a stop, 
on the way to where we're going
I'm not afraid because I know 
this is our Temporary Home"

-4  5-4  -4  -4  4 5-44
Old man, hos-pi-tal bed
 4   -5  -5   5     -4  -4   4  -3   4
The room is filled with peo-ple he loves
 4  4   -4   4     6    6   4  4
And he whis-pers don't cry for me
 6   -66  6  -4   5   -55
I'll see you all some-day
4    6   6   4   4
He looks up and says 
 7 -8  -7    7    -6
"I can see God's face"
  4   4  4   4  -4  5  4  6
"This is my tem-por-ar-y Home
 4    4    4  -4 5   6
It's not where I be-long
-6   6    5   -4    4   -6   6   5     -4
Win-dows and rooms that I'm pass-in' through
 4   -4  5   4   6
This is just a stop, 
4   4   4  -4   5   -6  6  5-4
on the way to where I'm go-ing
 4  -4  4   7  -7-6 -6 6 -6 -6
I'm not a-fraid be-cause I know 
 4   -4 5  -5   5  -4 5 5-44
this is my Tem-por-ar-y Home"
5-4-44-3”4
Mm
 4   4   4  -5   5  -4 4  4
This is our tem-por-ar-y home

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