Chords for Why Walk When You Can Fly - Mary Chapin Carpenter

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[B] I feel like it took me a long time to recognize that it's [E] possible to merge something that you love with [G#] what's important to you.
_ _ Songwriting [B] has always been this way of expressing things to the world and to myself.
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_ [B] _ [E] Language is a magical thing, and whether [G#] it's put to music or not, it takes you [G#m] places.
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_ _ [G#m] _ _ [E] _ In this world, there's a whole lot of trouble, [F#] baby.
In [B] this world, [E] there's a whole lot of pain.
[F#] In [B] this world, there's a whole lot of trouble, [G#] but a whole lot of [E] ground to gain.
What could [B] be given?
[C#m] Why [D#m] watch as the [E] world goes by?
[F#] It's hard enough [E] life to be living.
Why [G#m] walk when [E] you can fly?
Yeah!
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_ _ [G#m] _ _ [E] _ In this world, there's a whole lot of [F#] sorrow.
In [B] this world, there's a whole lot of [F#] shame.
In [B] this world, there's a whole lot of [G#m] sorrow, but a whole lot of [E] ground to gain.
When you spend your whole [B] life wishing, [C#m] [B] wanting, and [E] wondering why,
[F#] it's a [B] long enough [E] life to be living.
Why [G#m] walk when [E] you can fly? _ _
[B] _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ [E] Yeah!
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[E] _ [F#] In this world, [E] there's a whole lot of golden.
[F#] In this world, [E] there's a whole lot of play.
[G#] In this world, you have a soul [G#m] for a compass
and a heart for a [C#] pair of wings.
[E] There's a star on the [B] sky.
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[E] _ [F#] For the rest of the [E] time that you're given,
[G#m] why walk when [B] you can fly?
Ah!
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So [F#] ah!
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[E] _ _ [F#] _ [B] [C#] Woo!
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[E] _ _ [F#] _ [B] Yeah!
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Come [F#] on!
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