For The Sake Of The Song Chords by Townes Van Zandt

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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
[E] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Why does she sing [E] her sad [B] songs?
For me, I'm not the one to _ _ _ tenderly bring
[E] Her soft [B] sympathy I've just begun
To _ [F#] see my way clear and it's plain
If I stop, I [B] will fall
_ I _ _ [F#] can lay down a tear for her pain
Just a tear and [B] that's all _ _ _ _
_ [E] What does she [B] want me to do? _
[E] She says that she knows
[F#] That moments are rare, I _ [E] suppose
But [B] it's true
Then [E] on she goes
[F#] To say I don't care
All she [E] _ knows that [B] I do _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Maybe she just has to sing
For the sake [B] of the song _
_ _ _ _ [F#] And who do I think that I am
To decide [B] that she is wrong?
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ She'd like to think I was crude
[E] _ But she knows [B] that's a lie for I would be
No _ _ more than a two
[E] If I allowed her to [B] cry all over me
_ _ _ [F#] All my sorrow is real
Even though I can't [B] change my _ plans
_ If [F#] she could see how I feel
Then I know she'd [B] _ understand
_ Or _ [E] does she actually think [B] I'm to blame?
_ [E] Does she really [F#] believe
That some word of mine [E] could relieve _
All her [B] pain?
_ [E] Can't she see that she [F#] grieves
Just because she's been [E] blindly deceived
[B] By her shame? _ _ _ _
[F#] Oh, but maybe she just has to sing
For the sake [B] of the song
And _ _ _
_ [F#] who do I think that I am
To decide [B] that she's wrong?
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
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Oh, but nothing's what it seems
[E] _ Maybe she'll [B] start someday to realize
If _ she abandons her dreams
[E] Then all the words [B] she can say are only lies _ _
[F#] Oh, when will she see that the gain
Is only [B] to lose? _ _ _ _ _
[F#] All that she offers me are her chains
And I've got to [B] _ refuse _ _ _
Oh, but [E] it's only to herself that she's [B] lied _
[E] She likes to pretend
[F#] There's something that she should [E] defend
With [B] her pride _
[E] And I don't intend [F#] to stand here and be
[E] The friend from whom she [B] must hide _
Maybe _ _ _ [F#] _ she just has to sing
For the [B] sake of the song _
_ _ _ _ [F#] And who do I think that I am
To [B] decide that she's wrong? _
_ _ _ Oh, [F#] but maybe she just has to sing
For the sake of [B] the song _
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