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

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            Townes Van Zandt
For the Sake of the Song

transcribed by Phil Mitchell

capo at 2nd fret (all notes and chords relative to the capo)

[Intro]
  A                D               A               D
e|---------------------2-4-4h5p4-2p0---0---------------2-4-4h5p4-2--|p
B|-----2-----2---2----(3)-------(3)----2-----2---2----(3)-----------|(3)
G|---2-----2---2-----2---------------2-----2---2-----2--------------|
D|-------2---------0---------------------2---------0----------------|
A|-0-------------------------------0--------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

  A                E               A               A
e|-0-----------------------4--2--0-0-------------------------------|
B|-----2-----2---2-----3/5-5--3----2---2-----2---2-----2-----2---2-|
G|---2-----2---2---------------------2-----2---2-----2-----2---2---|
D|-------2-----------2-------------------2---------------2---------|
A|-0-------------------------------0---------------0---------------|
E|-----------------0-----------------------------------------------|

[Verse]
A                D                  A              A
Why does she sing her sad songs for me? I'm not the one
A                D                  A              A
to tenderly bring her soft sympathy.  I've just begun
E                           E                        A         A
to see me way clear and its plain if I stop I should fall.
E                           E                            A      A
I can lay down a tear for her pain, just a tear and that's all.

[Pre-Chorus]
D                        A     D
What does she want me to do?  She says that she knows
E                             D                  A
these moments are rare, I suppose that it's true.
D                  E                           D               A
Then on she goes to say I don't care, ah, she knows that I do.

[Chorus]
E                        E                       A          A
Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song
E                        E                         A(back to intro)
And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong?

Repeat and enjoy.

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| h    Hammer-on
| p    Pull-off
| (n)  Ghost note
| /    Slide up

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We also have 35 songs by Townes Van Zandt

• At My Window
• Be Here To Love Me
• Buckskin Stallion Blues
• Colorado Girl
• Columbine
• Dont Take It Too Bad
• Dont You Take It Too Bad
• Fare Thee Well Miss Carousel
• Flyin Shoes
• For The Sake Of The Song
• If I Needed You
• Ill Be Here In The Morning
• Kathleen
• Like A Summer Thursday
• Loretta
• Lungs
• Mr Mudd And Mr Gold
• My Proud Mountains
• No Place To Fall
• None But The Rain
• Nothin
• Our Mother The Mountain
• Pancho And Lefty
• Quicksilver Daydreams Of Maria
• Rake
• Rexs Blues
• She Came And She Touched Me
• Snake Mountain Blues
• Snowin On Raton
• Tecumseh Valley
• To Live Is To Fly
• Tower Song
• Waitin Around To Die
• White Freight Liner Blues
• White Freightliner Blues

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