For The Sake Of The Song Chords by Townes Van Zandt

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