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