Key: D major
Intro 1
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B
A
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E
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A
In the early morning
Verse 1
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B
hours
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Just before you're wide awake
Bsus4
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Before you summons all your powers
F#
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E
B
To cover up your big mistake
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When all the coulda woulda beens
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E
B
Collide with shoulda knowns
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hillbilly sins
Verse 2
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C#m
right, it's okay
F#m
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B
You'll learn to look the other way
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C#m
Life is short, life is long (hey)
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E
Get your guitar and sing this song:G
B
Verse 3
(Octaves)
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B
back the covers
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E
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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B
hands
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And you studied truth and honor
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Oh but you did not pass the test
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A
E
Oh up in heaven you're a goner
F#
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E
Seems you're as human as the rest
F#m
E
Yeah, but it's all
Verse 4
B
A
C#m
right, it's okay
F#m
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B
You'll learn to stand some other way
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E
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E
Take one last breath and fade to black
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D
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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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F#
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F#m
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Verse 6
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o'er the mountain
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F#
and so full of wanting
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Most of which they'll never know
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But you have heard the angels singing
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B
E
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Hell they're singing to you yet
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Take the gifts that they are bringing
F#
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They may be all that you get
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F#m
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Oh but it's all
Verse 7
B
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C#m
right, it's ok
F#m
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B
You'll be a saint some other day
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C#m
Fare thee well, adi os
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E
B
And we blame it on Hank
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F#m
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William s' ghost
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A
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