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Dare of an angel chords by Jerry Jeff Walker

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Am

  • Bm

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Verse 1
G
C
G
C
G
Why did we
C
take the rough road
G
C
G
C
G
When the trolley rode easily by?
C
G
C
G
Why did we climb high hill,
D
G
when the valley lay safe at our side?
C
Oh, send us out in the twilight,
G
C
G
to come back with the basket of words.
C
Just a fashion, some future quotation
G
C
G
That this desperate world so deserves
D
Perhaps it was just something foolish
C
For the dare of an angel at best
G
C
G
Just a chance, the ghost of your boy
Am
D
G
C
G
D
G
Sad songs will never rest
C
Why did we drink the cold rain
G
C
G
C
G
With the soup so warm on the stove?
C
G
C
G
Why did we wind up alone here,
C
G
D
G
singing melodies of love?
C
We did it simply to do it,
G
C
G
we did it to be tender yet tough.
C
Did it for the beauty in the music?
G
C
G
Isn't that explanation enough?
D
Perhaps it was just something foolish
C
Or the dare of an angel at best
G
C
G
Chant the ghost of your poet,
Am
D
Bm
G
C
G
C
G
D
G
those old songs were left to rest
D
Perhaps it was just something foolish,
C
Or the dare of an angel at best,
G
How to dance with the
C
G
ghost of the poet
Am
C
D
G
Whose old songs never end
C
G
C
G
C
G
you
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