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Emmylou Harris   The Price You Pay written by Bruce Springsteen

Frank Reckard    lead guitar
Steve Fishell    steel guitar
Don Johnson      piano
Mike Bowden      bass
John Ware        drums
Barry Tashian    guitar/harmony

C#C# Piano Chord 
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You make up your mind  you choose the chance you take
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You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks
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Out on to an open road you ride until the day
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             G#G# Piano Chord 
       C#C# Piano Chord 

You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

Now with their hands held high,
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they reached out for the open skies
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And then with their last breath they built the roads
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They would ride to their deaths
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                           F#F# Piano Chord 

Driving on through the night, unable to  break away
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            G#G# Piano Chord 
     F#F# Piano Chord 

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Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
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      C#C# Piano Chord 
               F#F# Piano Chord 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay
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                                F#F# Piano Chord 

Now they'd come so far and they'd waited so long
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                              G#G# Piano Chord 

Just to end up caught in a dream where  everything goes wrong
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Where the dark of night holds back the light of the day
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             G#G# Piano Chord 
      F#F# Piano Chord 

And you've gotta stand and fight for the price you pay
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                     F#F# Piano Chord 

Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
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         G#G# Piano Chord 
      C#C# Piano Chord 
             F#F# Piano Chord 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

SOLO

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Little girl down on the strand
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With that pretty little baby in your hands
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                         G#G# Piano Chord 

Do you remember the story of the  promised land
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How he crossed the desert sands
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And could not enter the chosen land
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On the banks of the river he stayed
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          C#C# Piano Chord 

To face the price you pay
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So let the games start, you better run you little wild heart
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                                     G#G# Piano Chord 

You can run through all the nights and all the days
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But just across the county line,
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A stranger  passing through put up a sign
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That counts so many fallen away to the price you pay,
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Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
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         G#G# Piano Chord 
      F#F# Piano Chord 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay
C#C# Piano Chord 
                     F#F# Piano Chord 

Oh, the price you pay, oh, the price you pay
C#C# Piano Chord 
         G#G# Piano Chord 
      F#F# Piano Chord 
                C#C# Piano Chord 
   F#F# Piano Chord 
   C#C# Piano Chord 

Now you can't walk away from the price you pay

Warner Brothers Records 1981
Copyright Bruce Springsteen Music(ASCAP)