Sake of the Song Chords by Hayes Carll

[Start]

[Intro]
Am Em Am Em G Am
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[Verse]
                                      E7    Em       
If you're nobody's business or you're front page news
                     Am         
Folk Rock Country or Delta Blues
Am                                
Tell your truth however you choose
          Em                      Am  
And do it all for the sake of the song
                                Em        
Yeah hitchhike and bus ride and rental car
                               Am          
Living rooms coffee houses and rundown bars
Am                                          
Ten thousand people or alone under the stars
    Em                      Am  
Its all for the sake of the song


[Chorus]
            F                                   Am                        
And there's a man who wrote Your Cheatin' Heart now he's through his tooth
       F                        
And he plays it on a stolen harp
Em                       E7   
That's soaked in hundred proof
            F                     
And there's one who might be happy
       Am      Em       Am   
With a foreign badger's purse
      F                                 E7                
She's lost the crowd's attention at the forty second verse
             Am                                    
And it's the travelling salesman the girl next door
   Em                    Am                
On the empty room to the bird on the corner
Am                        
Less is less until more is
              Em                      Am  
More And it's all for the sake of the song


[Solo]
Am7 Em G Am Em G Am
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[Verse]
            F                           
And there's the young man on the marquee
          Am                        
Yeah he's the son of some well known
F                                          E7                   
His father bought the tour bus so he could strike out on his own


[Chorus]
                F                      Am           Em         Am 
And there's the brooding contradiction he's holding Van Gogh's ear
          F                             E7                    
That he's taped it to his guitar in the hope someone will hear
Am                                      Em                          Am                
It's back stage and Nudie Suits and the next big thing will get 'em back to your roots
Am                                   
High tops flannel and duct tape boots
         Em          Cmaj7       Am  
And it's all for the sake of the song


[Inst]
Am7 Em Am7 Em7 Em Am Am7 Am
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Em Em7 Em Am
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[Verse]
                F                                     Am                       
And there's the mystic there's the legend and there's the best that's ever been
                F                                  E7        Em  E7   
And there's the voice of a generation who wants to pass this way again


[Chorus]
            F                                  Am      Em   Am    
And there's record deals and trained seals and puppets on a string
    F                                          Em                       
And they're all just trying to figure out what makes the caged bird sing
                               Am   Em                        Am       
It's lights camera on with the show lifetime to get ready now go cat go
Am                            
Where it all ends nobody knows
         Em                      Am  
But it's all for the sake of the song
                                  Em                    
So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news
                     Am         
Folk Rock Country or Delta Blues
     Am                           
Tell your truth however you choose
          Em                  Am      
And do it all for the sake of the song


[Outro]

[End]