Key: D major
Intro 1
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E
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B
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E
In the early morning
Verse 1
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hours
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B
Just before you're wide awake
F#sus4
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B
Before you summons all your powers
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E
B
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To cover up your big mistake
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When all the coulda woulda beens
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Collide with shoulda knowns
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hillbilly sins
Verse 2
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G#m
right, it's okay
C#m
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F#
You'll learn to look the other way
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G#m
Life is short, life is long (hey)
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B
Get your guitar and sing this song:G
F#
Verse 3
(Octaves)
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back the covers
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B
Now you're ready to make your stand
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You never really ever thought that
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No you had promise in your
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hands
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B
And you studied truth and honor
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B
Oh but you did not pass the test
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B
Oh up in heaven you're a goner
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E
B
Seems you're as human as the rest
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B
Yeah, but it's all
Verse 4
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E
G#m
right, it's okay
C#m
E
F#
You'll learn to stand some other way
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B
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B
Take one last breath and fade to black
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A
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La- da- da- da- die- die- die
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Die- die- die- die- die
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Nobody
Verse 5
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said it would be easy
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And nobody said it had to be this
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Hard
Interlude 1
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B
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C#m
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Verse 6
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o'er the mountain
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C#
and so full of wanting
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B
Most of which they'll never know
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B
E
But you have heard the angels singing
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E
F#
B
E
Hell they're singing to you yet
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B
Take the gifts that they are bringing
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E
They may be all that you get
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C#m
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Oh but it's all
Verse 7
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G#m
right, it's ok
C#m
E
F#
You'll be a saint some other day
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G#m
Fare thee well, adi os
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B
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And we blame it on Hank
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C#m
B
William s' ghost
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