Lake Fork Verne - How Hard It Is To Let Him Go

      This is taken partially from a poem by Aileen Fitzpatrick (Man-Child).
My dad had hand copied it on the back of a sheet from the State Bank of Latham 
calendar and was hanging in the basement of our old home place, Garrison?s Tree
Farm, Rural Route One, Mt Pulaski, IL
How Hard it is  to Let Him Go
? By: Verne Garrison Valley Park, Mo
Banjo bdgbd (fifth string spiked to b) play Key E

E
Fold his childhood in your heart
     A
With life before him, he?s embarked.
       E        B
To the world?of men.
                       E
Hold your love for him apart
             A
from his new reserve.
A            E
Don?t let it show,
E             B
Don?t let him know
B                         E
How hard it is to let him go.

E
Keep his childhood tucked away
          A
Give your love room to grow
E                       B
He must grow apart from you-
E
If your love but give him room
        A
He will find it very soon.

E                    E
he doesn?t really go away
                         B
if he?s never pressed to stay.
                 E
So never let him know;
E           B             E
How hard it is to let him go.

E           B             E
How hard it is to let him go