Chords for Trying to Hold the Wind Up With a Sail - Jerry Jeff Walker

_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Eb] But somewhere [Ab] this Sunday day [Bb] smoking up a cornfield drive
[Eb] But it's shining [Ab] in the love sun [Bb] as a snowy cloud _
[Ab] And I [Bb] know my fingerprints [Eb] will be brushed away
[Ab] By the heartbreak [Eb] every day of [Bb] the century _ _
[Cm] But the other night when you [Ab] cried and you woke me up
[Bb] To the love beyond [Eb] your imagination
I _ [Fm] held you close to me on [Bb] Sunday
And _ [Fm] I know [Bb] we're not [Eb] the same
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ We _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Eb] turned [Ab] again and stood upon [Bb] that gentle land _ _
[Eb] It's a [Ab] vulnerable drunk of [Bb] old Boston's hands _ _
[Ab] They could rise [Bb] up another hot [Eb] naked wall
But we stand tall, we can face it again
It's the [Bb] same old way _
[Cm] But last night when you cried [Ab] and woke me up
[Bb] Just to tell me it's [Eb] all a bad dream
_ [Fm] And I tried to hold you to [Bb] the summer rain
_ [Fm] Like trying to hold [Bb] the wind up with [Eb] a sail
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ [Ab] Whenever _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ you cry and wake [Ab] up just tell me
[Bb] You know that [Eb] it's all a bad dream
I [Fm] want to be there to hold you to the [Bb] summer rain
_ _ [Fm] Like trying to [Bb] hold the wind up [Eb] with a sail
[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Eb] Like trying [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[Fm] to [Bb] hold the wind [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ up with [Eb] a sail
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Ab] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _