WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY (Mary Chapin Carpenter) ------------------------------------------------- [I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song. In concert, she plays it with a capo on the 7th fret. Since the song is in B, that would mean she's playing in E, and the verse chords are B E A A. She's clearly using a very strange tuning, because I can't for the life of me figure out how she's getting those chords out of the positions she uses. Any ideas?] [I'm going to write these chords down in the key of G, since I know that's where John Jennings plays them, with a capo on the 4th fret.]
n.c. In this world there's a whole lot of trouble, baby n.c. In this world there's a whole lot of pain n.c. In this world there's a whole lot of trouble n.c. But a whole lot of ground to gain n.c. Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by n.c. It's a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly
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In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
In this world there's a whole lot of shame
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow
And a whole lotta ground to gain
When you spend your whole life wishing, wanting and wondering why
It's a long enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly
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In this world there's a whole lot of golden
In this world there's a whole lot of plain
In this world you've a soul for a compass
And a heart for a pair of wings
There's a star on the far horizon, rising bright in an azure sky
For the rest of the time that you're given, why walk when you can fly
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