what they say chords by
Chris Smither
Chris Smither

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Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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They say, "The
good die young," but it ain't for certain
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I been good all day, I ain't hurtin'
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Not in any way
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I'm too old to die young
Verse 2
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I shouldn't talk too loud
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Bad luck is preying on the proud ones
There's nothin' like ly
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ing in a graveyard
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To teach you to hold your
Interlude 1
tongue
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Verse 3
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They say, "The Devil was an
angel back in the beginnin'"
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So, was I nobody's
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pinnin' any hopes on me
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I ain't sayin' that they oughta
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I didn't
Verse 4
wanna change,
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but the road kept slidin' in a funny way
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And I kept ridin' on it anyway
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Sometimes, you do what you gotta
Verse 5
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What they say, what they do
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They'll swear it is,
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they'll think it's true
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When they think it all, but they ain't willin'
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If they can't think of what to say,
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they talk anyway
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It's all cliché fast food for the brain,
Interlude 2
but not too fillin'
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Verse 6
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They say, "Time and tide will
wait for no- one"
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The time it takes one tide
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to go one time
Around the world would
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leave you spinnin'
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But the
Verse 7
race is on between the tide
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And then, the people livin' right beside it
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No one's drownin' yet,
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but they ain't winnin'
Verse 8
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If words were wisdom, we'd all speak
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And smarten up from week to week
Just sayin',
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"Live and learn," there's nothin' to it
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Friends
Verse 9
in need are the friends indeed
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But the friends who think
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of what we need
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They hardly talk at all, they just do it
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They hardly talk at all, they just do it
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