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For The Sake Of The Song by Townes Van Zandt - Guitar Chords

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            [Intro]
G  C  G  C  
G  D  G  G

         
[Verse]
G                C                  G
Why does she sing her sad songs for me I'm not the one
   G             C              G
To tenderly bring her soft sympathy I've just begun
   D                                                G
To see my way clear and it's plain if I stop I will fall
      D                                                   G    G7
I can lay down a tear for her pain just a tear and that's all

C                          G
  What does she want me to do?
    C                       D                     C              G
She says that she knows the moments are rare I suppose that it's true
C                   D                        C             G
Then on she goes to say I don't care how she knows...but I do


[Chorus]
D                                              G     
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
D                                       G           C  G  C  G  D  G   
Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong?


[Verse]
              G                C                       G
She'd like to think I was cruel but she knows that's a lie for I would be
   G               C                    G
No more than a tool if I allowed her to cry all over me
       D                                         G
All my sorrow is real even tho I can't change my plans
             D                                          G    G7
If she could see how I feel then I know that she'd understand

            C                     G
Aw does she actually think I'm to blame?
     C                       D                         C             G 
Does she really believe that some word of mine could relieve all her pain?
          C                         D                            C             G
Can't she see that she grieves just because she's been blindly deceived by her shame?


[Chorus]
D                                              G     
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
D                                       G           C  G  C  G  D  G   
Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong?


[Verse]
       G                     C                         G
Aw but nothin's what it seems, maybe she'll start some day to realize
        G                 C                           G
If she abandons her dreams then all the words she can say are only lies
        D                                     G
Aw when will she see that the game is only to lose
         D                                              G    G7
All that she offers me are her chains and I've got to refuse

           C                          G 
Aw but its only to herself that she's lied
    C                        D                           C             G
She likes to pretend there's something that she should defend with her pride
    C                 D                     C                         G
And I don't intend to stand here and be the friend from whom she must hide


[Chorus]
D                                              G     
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
D                                       G           C  G  C  G  D  G   
Who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong?
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