Lost and Found is a fictional story about a husband who lost the love he shared with his wife and how he found it again.  He was reading the classified ads at breakfast with his wife and saw an advertisement: “It read lost and found, And in the paper, My love was found…If you want your love, Call the followin’ number…It was my own phone number…And I gave my wife a kiss, Honey I missed that tenderness, That I knew when we were young so long ago, Her touch caught my attention, She didn’t even have to mention, The love that I had found again inside…”  It’s a sweet song about focusing on what’s important in life, especially areas where we may have become complacent over time.  The moral of the song is to make sure we don’t neglect the most important things that matter most to our hearts!

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I recorded my original song “Lost And Found” on Set 3 in 1996, and it tells the fictional story of a husband who finds the love he’s lost for his wife through a ‘Lost and Found’ ad his wife places in the paper for him to read. It’s a sweet song that turned out pretty well ~ enjoy! ♡ 🙂 Mark

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(Note: Emailed versions of these songs lose their chord alignment and formatting, so refer to the original post and/or the scanned lyric sheet as your guide!)

Lost and Found

“Three Chords and a Prayer” – Collected Works Volume VI, Copyright 1991, Mark D. Jones, All Rights Reserved

Verse One:

        D                   G

I was sittin’ down to breakfast

       D                         G

Just readin’ the old newspaper

D                   G      A

Looking at the classified

      D                       G

The words caught my attention

      D                  G

The ad went on to mention

      D                   G    A

The love that I had lost inside

          D          G

It read lost and found

                A

And in the paper

                 G

My love was found

               D

Sooner or later

                 G

The ad said please

                        A

If you want your love

                       C

Call the followin’ number

                       G

Call the followin’ number

           D     D     G

It read four, two, nine

D     D    D      A

Five, six, eight, three

          D      D     G

It read four, two, nine

D    D     D     A

L     O     V     E

                               G

It was my own phone number

Verse Two:

            D                        G

I looked up from under my paper

                    D                           G

There was my wife just a lookin’ at me

        D                             G              A

And I knew she placed that ad just for me

   D                       G

It caught me by surprise

  D                   G

I didn’t even realize

      D                 G             A

She had that love I had lost inside

  D                 G

I put down the paper

                A

And in her eyes

                 G

My love was found

               D

Sooner or later

                  G

My love was found

                A

And it was sittin’

                             C

Right in front of my eyes

                             G

Right in front of my eyes

          D      D     G

It read four, two, nine

D     D    D       A

Five, six, eight, three

          D      D     G

It read four, two, nine

D    D     D     A

L     O     V     E

                               G

It was my own phone number

Verse Three:

         D                   G

And I gave my wife a kiss

            D                        G

Honey I missed that tenderness

         D                           G                   A

That I knew when we were young so long ago

      D                             G

Her touch caught my attention

       D                         G

She didn’t even have to mention

      D                   G                A

The love that I had found again inside

          D          G

It read lost and found

                A

And in the paper

                 G

My love was found

               D

Sooner or later

                  G

The ad said please

                        A

If you want your love

                       C

Call the followin’ number

                       G

Call the followin’ number

          D      D     G

It read four, two, nine

D     D    D       A

Five, six, eight, three

          D      D     G

It read four, two, nine

D    D     D     A

L     O     V     E

                               G

It was my own phone number

                               C

It was my own phone number

                               D

It was my own phone number