If you're not yet a 'Running Man' enthusiast, certainly you've at least heard of, or know of the hype surrounding this wildly successful variety program. Since it first aired back in 2010, SBS's 'Running Man' has been doing exceptionally well with regards to attracting and upholding the audience interest.

More so than that, the program's domestic and international fan base hasn't stopped multiplying; the program transcends any age barriers, seeing as to how elementary school kids find the show just as hilarious as do elders; and perhaps most tellingly, viewers consistently finish watching the episode feeling good. It's not so much a matter of one episode being bad as it is a matter of other episodes being better.
  

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But what is it about this particular program that makes it so remarkable? Though there are plenty of variety programs out there, - both of the past and present - 'Running Man' has become indispensable to the genre of lighthearted, semi-scripted entertainment. Why, though?

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I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
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Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me.     He said,
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"Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
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Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your Grandma so."


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We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
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Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
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But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead
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Of her, I found this letter, and this is what it said:

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If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
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I'll meet you when my chores are through;
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I don't know how long I'll be.
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But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
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And between now and then, till I see you again,
        F       G       C   G/B  | Am  Am/G  | Dm  G  | C F/C C
I'll be loving you.  Love, me.

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I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away,
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In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray.
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I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
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But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.


       F            G     C   F          G     C
If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
     F                G          Am
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
Dm7             Dm7/C      Gsus  G
I don't know how long I'll be.
        F         G       C     F       G        Am
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
       F            G            E7        Am7
And between now and then, till I see you again,
        F       G       C    Am7
I'll be loving you.  Love, me.
   F            G            E7        Am7
Between now and then, till I see you again,
        F       G (NO CHORDS)
I'll be loving you.  Love, me.