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To Live Is To Fly by Townes Van Zandt - Guitar Chords

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            To Live is to Fly ~ Townes Van Zandt
 
There are other tabs that are right, but incomplete after the first verse.  
The chord progression needed to be separated from the verses and the choruses.  
It's confusing on which is which, without tabbing out whole song.

G * = Open D shape on the 7th fret.  That’s how Townes played it.
e|-----7---------------|
B|-----8---------------|
G|-----7---------------|
D|-----0---------------|
A|-----x---------------|
E|-----x---------------|

[Verse]
G *         D
Won't say I love you babe
G *          D
Won't say I need you babe
D                A
But I'm going to get you babe
        G               D
and I will not do you wrong

G *             D
Living's mostly wasting time
G *             D
and I waste my share of mine
D               A
but it never feels too good
   G                    D
so let's not take too long

[Chorus]
        G       D               G       A
You're soft as glass, and I'm a gentle man
D                 A
we got the sky to talk about
        G            D
and the world to lie upon
 
[Verse]
G *           D      
Days up and down they come
G *            D
like rain on a conga drum
D            A
forget most, remember some
    G              D
but don't turn none away.

G *           D
Everything is not enough
G *            D
nothing is too much to bear
D                 A
where you been is good and gone
        G                  D
all you keep's the getting there.

[Chorus]
   G          D    G       A
To live is to fly, low and high
D                     A
so shake the dust off of your wings
        G                 D
and the sleep out of your eyes.

[Verse]
G *             D
It's goodbye to all my friends
G *          D
It's time to go again
D                A
Think of all the poetry
        G                D
and the pickin' down the line.

G *           D
I'll miss the system here
G *                      D
the bottom's low and the treble's clear
D                   A
but it don't pay to think too much
       G                D
on the things you leave behind.

[Chorus]
     G   D        G          A
I may be gone but I won't be long
D                         A
I'll be bringing back the melody
        G             D
and the rhythm that I find.

[Verse]
G *        D
We all got holes to fill
G *             D
and them holes are all that's real
D                A
some fall on you like a storm
    G                  D
sometimes you dig your own

G *               D
But the choice is yours to make
G *             D
And the time is yours to take
D         A
some dive into the sea
     G             D
some toil upon the stone.

[Chorus]
   G          D    G       A
To live is to fly, low and high
D                     A
so shake the dust off of your wings
        G                 D
and the sleep out of your eyes
D                     A
so shake the dust off of your wings
        G                 D
and the tears out of your eyes
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