Chords
Sake Of The Song

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If you're nobody's business or you're front page news
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Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose
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And do it all for the sake of the song
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Yeah, hitchhike, and bus ride and rental car, living rooms coffee house
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and rundown bars
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Ten thousand people or alone under the stars, its all for the sake of the
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song
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And there's a man who wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart", now he's lying
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through his tooth
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And he plays it on a stolen harp, that's soaked in hundred proof
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And there's one who might be happy with a foreign badger's purse
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She's lost the crowd's attention at the forty second verse
verse 2
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And it's the travelling salesman, the girl next door
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On the empty room to the bird on the corner, less is less until more is
more
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And it's all for the sake of the song
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And there's the young man on the marquee, He's the son of some well
known
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And his father bought the tour bus, so he could strike out on his own
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And there's the brooding contradiction, he's holding Van Gogh's ear
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And he's taped it to his guitar, in the hope someone will hear
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It's back stage and Nudie Suits, and the next big thing will get 'em
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back to you roots
verse 3
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High tops, flannel and duct tape boots
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And it's all for the sake of the song
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And there's the mystic, there's the legend, and there's the best that's
ever been
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And there's the voice of a generation who wants to pass this way again
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And there's record deals and trained seals, and puppets on a string
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And they're all just trying to figure out what makes the caged bird sing
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It's lights, camera, on with the show, lifetime to get ready, now go cat go
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Where it all ends, nobody knows
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But it's all for the sake of the song
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So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news
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Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose
 G                                                                                             Am 
And do it all for the sake of the song