Sake Of The Song chords by Hayes Carll

Chords with lyrics

Intro: Am,Em,G,Am (3x)

verse 1
A minorAm                     E minorEm
If you're nobody's business or you're front page news
G+G                 A minorAm        A minorAm         E minorEm
Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose
G+G                        A minorAm
And do it all for the sake of the song
A minorAm                       E minorEm        G+G
Yeah, hitchhike, and bus ride and rental car, living rooms coffee house
    A minorAm
and rundown bars
A minorAm                 E minorEm                G+G
Ten thousand people or alone under the stars, its all for the sake of the
A minorAm
song

FF                       A minorAm                A minorAm
And there's a man who wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart", now he's lying
          E minorEm
through his tooth
FF                A minorAm          G+G
And he plays it on a stolen harp, that's soaked in hundred proof
FF                       A minorAm        E minorEm
And there's one who might be happy with a foreign badger's purse
FF                A minorAm           G+G
She's lost the crowd's attention at the forty second verse

verse 2
A minorAm                        E minorEm
And it's the travelling salesman, the girl next door
G+G                    A minorAm             A minorAm           E minorEm
On the empty room to the bird on the corner, less is less until more is
more
G+G                         A minorAm
And it's all for the sake of the song
FF                        A minorAm
And there's the young man on the marquee, He's the son of some well
known
FF                    A minorAm              G+G
And his father bought the tour bus, so he could strike out on his own


FF                               A minorAm
And there's the brooding contradiction, he's holding Van Gogh's ear
FF                  A minorAm          G+G
And he's taped it to his guitar, in the hope someone will hear
A minorAm               E minorEm             G+G
It's back stage and Nudie Suits, and the next big thing will get 'em
          A minorAm
back to you roots

verse 3
A minorAm              E minorEm
High tops, flannel and duct tape boots
G+G                      A minorAm
And it's all for the sake of the song
FF                        A minorAm
And there's the mystic, there's the 🏷Legend, and there's the best that's
ever been
FF                       A minorAm               G+G
And there's the voice of a generation who wants to pass this way again
FF                       A minorAm
And there's record deals and trained seals, and puppets on a string


FF                       A minorAm                G+G
And they're all just trying to figure out what makes the caged bird sing
A minorAm               E minorEm           G+G                      A minorAm
It's lights, camera, on with the show, lifetime to get ready, now go cat go
A minorAm            E minorEm
Where it all ends, nobody knows
G+G                      A minorAm
But it's all for the sake of the song
A minorAm                         E minorEm
So if you're nobody's business or you're front page news
G+G                 A minorAm        A minorAm         E minorEm
Folk Rock, Country or Delta Blues, Tell your truth however you choose
G+G                        A minorAm
And do it all for the sake of the song