YOU'RE AGING WELL (Dar Williams)
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[Each chord is half a measure; no capo.]
[verse: G6=320030, Gmaj7=3x0032, C(9)addF#=x30032, D13sus4=xx0503, D(4)=x54035, C5=x3x013]
[chorus: G=320033, C(9)=x32033]
G6 Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9) G6/B Gmaj7/B C(9)addF# C(9)
[intro]
Am Am Em Em Am7 G6/B C5 C5 D13sus4 D13sus4 D(4) D(4)
[intro]
G6 Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9)
Why is it that as we grow older and stronger
G6/B Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9)
The road signs point us adrift and make us afraid?
Am7 Am7 Em Em
Saying you never can win, watch your back, where's your husband?
Am7 G6/B C D(4) D(4)
I don't like the signs that the signmakers made. [extra half-measure!]
G6 Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9)
So I'm gonna steal out with my paint and my brushes
G6/B Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9)
I'll change the directions, I'll hit every street
Am7 Am7 Em Em
It's the Tinseltown scandal, the Robin Hood vandal
Am7 G6/B C5 C5
She goes out and steals the King's English
D13sus4 D13sus4 D(4) D(4)
And in the morning you wake up and the signs point to you; they say
G G C(9) C(9)
I'm so glad that you finally made it here
G G C(9) C(9)
You thought nobody cared, but I did, I could tell
G6/B Gmaj7/B C(9)addF# C(9)
And this is your year, and it always starts here
Am G6/B C(9) D(4)
And oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh, you're aging well
G6 Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9) G6/B Gmaj7/B C(9)addF# C(9)
[instrumental]
Well, I know a woman with a collection of sticks
She could fight back the hundreds of voices she heard
She could poke at the greed, she could fend off her need
And with anger she found she could pound every word
But one voice got through and caught her up by surprise
And it said, "don't hold us back, we're the story you tell"
And no sooner than spoken, a spell had been broken
And the voices before her were trumpets and tympani
Violins, basses and woodwinds and cellos, singing
We're so glad that you finally made it here
You thought nobody cared, but we did, we could tell
And now you'll dance through the days while the orchestra plays
And oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh, you're aging well
[8-bar instrumental, same chords as intro]
Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over
The road to enchantment was not mine to take
Cause lower calf, upper arm should be half what they are
I was breaking the laws that the signmakers made.
And all I could eat was the poisonous apple
And that's not a story I was meant to survive
And I was all out of choices, but the woman of voices
She turned round the corner with music around her,
She gave me the language that keeps me alive, she said
I'm so glad that you finally made it here
With the things you know now, that only time can tell
Looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are
Am G6/B C(9) D(4)
And oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh, you're aging
Am G6/B C(9) D(4)
Oh, oh-oh oh-oh-oh, and I am aging
Am G6/B C(9) D(4)
Oh, oh-oh oh-oh-oh, aren't we aging
G6 Gmaj7 C(9)addF# C(9) G.
well?
- transcribed by Adam Schneider, http://adamschneider.net/
