Chords for "What They Say" by Chris Smither / performed by David Maloney

_ _ _ [C] Well, here I sit in a sixth grade humanities classroom waiting for a class to arrive.
About five minutes, and I thought I'd stick a little song on the old _ YouTube by Chris Smither,
one of my [G] favorite people, writers and guitar players.
This is his tune called What [E] They Say.
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_ _ _ _ They say they're good, die young, but it ain't [G] for certain [F] I've been good all day.
I ain't [C] hurtin' out in any way.
_ I'm too old to [G] die young.
_ _ _ I [C] shouldn't talk too loud, bad [G] luck's preying [F] on the proud ones.
There's nothing like [C] laying in a graveyard [G] to teach you to hold your [C] tongue.
_ _ _ _ They say that devil was an angel back in [G] the beginning.
[F] So was I, _ nobody's [C] pinning any hopes on me.
I ain't [G] saying that they oughta.
_ _ _ I [C] didn't want to change, but the road kept [G] sliding in [F] a funny way.
And I kept riding [C] on it anyway.
[G] Sometimes you do [C] what you gotta. _
_ _ _ _ _ What they _ [G] say, what they do, [F] they'll swear it is, [C] they'll think it's true.
When they think it all, but they [G] ain't willing. _
_ _ _ And [C] if they can't think of what to say, they [F] talk anyway. _
It's all cliche [C] fast food for [G] the brain, but not [C] to fill it.
_ _ _ All right. _ _
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_ _ _ They say that time and tide will wait for no [Dm] [F] one.
The time it takes one tide to go [C] on, time around the world would leave [G] you spinning. _
_ _ _ _ [C] And the race is on between the [G] tide [F] and the people living right beside [C] it.
No one's [G] drowning yet, but they [C] ain't winning. _
_ _ _ _ If words were [G] wisdom, we'd all [F] speak and spartan up [C] from week to week.
I'm just saying, live and learn, there's nothing [G] to _ it.
_ _ _ [C] And the friends in need are friends [G] indeed.
And [F] the friends who think of what we need, [C] why they hardly [G] talk at all.
They [C] just do it.
_ _ _ _ They hardly talk [G] at all. _ _ _
They just [F] do _ _ [C] it.
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_ _ _ _ What they say.
_ Chris Smither _ _ _ _