The Last Nail Chords by Dan Fogelberg

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_ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ I saw you running [Em] ahead of the crowd [F] I chased but never [C] thought I'd catch you
[G] You [C] said you [Am] loved me [Em] but you had to be free and [C] I let you
[F] _ _ _ _ _ We walked [Am] together through [Em] the gardens and graves
[F] I watched you grow to [C] be a woman
[G] _ _ _ [Am] Living on [Em] promises that nobody gave [F] to no one
_ _ Well they [C] were giving to no one
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_ I [Am] started listening [Em] to the wind and the [F] rain
Through stranger ears but [C] could hear nothing
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_ [C] One [Am] night I thought I [Em] heard them whisper my name
And [F] I went running _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] I [Am] left a trail of [Em] footprints deep in the snow
[F] I swore one day I [C] wouldn't trace [G] them
_ [C] But [Am] when I turned [Em] around I found that the wind had [F] erased them
No _ one [C] left in the cave [Bm] still
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ Fly away my [A] sweet bird over [C] the land
[G] _ [Em] Take life for [A] all the freedom [C] you can
_ [G] _ But if you [A] ever should need [C] a man
[A] Well the offer [C] still stands
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_ [C] I hear [Am] you've taken on [Em] a abandoned child
[F] And lived somewhere in [C] Pennsylvania
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_ [C] I never [Am] thought you'd [Em] ever sever the string
But I [F] can't blame you none
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_ [Am] So let the ashes fall [Em] and lay where they will
_ [F] Just say that once you used [C] to know [G] me
_ [C] One last [Am] time sing that old [Em] song we used to know
[F] But this time sing
This time sing
Oh this time [C] sing a little more slowly
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_ [Am] _ _ [C] Slowly
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_ [G] _ [Em] Fly away my [A] sweet bird over [C] the land
[G] _ [Em] Take life [A] for all the freedom [C] you can
[G] _ [Em] But if [A] you ever should [C] need a man
[A] Well the offer [C] still stands
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