Key: E major
Verse 1
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G
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Gold would be worthless
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Em
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if it didn't require such heartbreak to seek it,
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A
find it, and mine it.
Gsus2
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Em
If gold could be found
Asus4
G
A
flying round everywhere
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Em
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A
It would be the lowliest of metals
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D
A
Too soft for serious use
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G
Pretty, of course,
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G
Bb
warm to the touch,
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Asus4
A
when you've handled so much
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D
Em
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the loneliest of
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D
matters.
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D
through the ice and the snow?
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Asus4
and she said, let's go.
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D
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Gsus2
I rode behind her as she rode ahead
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Em
And all through that winter
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A
I'd lose her and find her
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F#m
Our rations ran out, our horses were dead
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Fdim
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and I had to remind her
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It's the loneliest of metals,
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G
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A
too soft for serious use
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G
Pretty, of course,
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A
Bb
warm to the touch,
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Asus4
A
when you've handled so much
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Em
G
A
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D
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D
the loveliest of metals.
In a prospector shack,
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gold is to find.
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in six -album phase
Em
E
of midsummer lightning
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You just open a hole
Asus4
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And it's there for the taking
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Em
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A
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Go
Snow blind and starving
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A
and the storm raged outside
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E
could not crown the truth
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D
She said, these things I know
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Gm
So what good is gold,
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Em
G
it's the lowliest of
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metals
Sometimes I dream that
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D
That things'll get better,
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Em
G
And gold is the loneliest of letters
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G
D
A
Too soft for serious use
Bm
G
D
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Gm
It's pretty, of course, raw to the touch
Bb
Em
But no longer grueling
Asus4
A
when you've handled so much
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Em
G
It's the loneliest of metals
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D
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The loneliest of metals
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The loneliest of metals
Outro 1
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