Chords for You're Aging Well by Dar Williams

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[Am] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Why is it that as we [C] grow older and stronger, [G] the road signs point us [C] adrift
and make us [G] afraid, [Am] saying you never can win?
Watch [Em] your back, where's your husband?
[Am] I don't like [Bm] the signs that [C] the sign makers [G] make _
So I'm gonna steal out with [C] my paint, my [G] brushes
I'll change the directions, [C] I'll hit every [Am] street
It's the tinsel town scandal, [Em] the Robin Hood vandal
She [Am] goes out and [Bm] steals the [C] king's English
And in the [G] morning you wake up and the signs point to [D] you
[G] They say, I'm so glad that [C] you finally made it here
You [G] thought nobody cared, but I [C] did, I could tell
[G] And this is [Bm] your year, and it [D] always starts here
And [Am] oh, [Bm] _ _ [C] _ [G] you're aging well _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C]
[G] Well, I know a woman with a [C] collection of sticks
[G] She could fight back the hundreds of [C] voices she heard
She could [Am] poke at the greed, she could [Em] fend off her need
And with [Am] anger she [Bm] found she could [C] pound every [G] _
word
But one voice got through and caught [C] her up by [G] surprise
It said, don't hold us back, we're the story [C] you're [G] telling
No [Am] sooner than spoken, [Em] a spell had been broken
And [Am] the voices [Bm] before were [C]
trumpets and timpani
[D] _ Violins, [G] basses, and woodwinds, and cellos singing
We're so glad that you [C] finally made it here
[Em] You [G] thought nobody cared, but we [C] did, we could [Em] tell
And now you [G] dance to the days while [D] the [C] orchestra plays
And [Am] oh, [G] _ _ [C] _
[G] you're aging well
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Now _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
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_ _ [G] when I was fifteen, oh I [C] knew it was [G] over
The road to enchantment was [C] not mine to take
Cause though [Am] a calf's upper arm [Em] should be half what they are
I was [Am] breaking the [Bm] laws that the [C] sign makers [D] made
And [G] all I could eat was [C] the poisonous apple
[G] And that's not a story, I [C] was meant to survive
And [Am] I was all out of choices, but [Em] the woman of voices
She [Am] turned round [Bm] the corner [C] with music around her
[D] She gave me the [G] language that keeps me alive
She said, I'm so glad you're [C] finally made it here
With [G] the things you know now, [C] that only time can tell
Looking [Em] back, seeing far, landing [C] right where we [Am] are
And oh, _ [Bm] _
_ [C] _ [D] you're [Am] aging, oh
[Bm]
And [C] _ [D] I'm aging, [Am] _ _ [Bm]
oh
[C] Aren't [D] they aging [G] well? _ _
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