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The Cost Of Living by Don Henley

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The Cost of Living - Don Henley
**note: the song is recorded one half-step lower (F#)

INTRO:  G    Cmaj7     Cmaj7     Dsus4  D

VERSE 1:
G                                             Cmaj7       G       
Some folks don?t like working hard, some folks don?t like rain
G                                Dsus4                  D   
Some folks love to tell you all about their aches and pains
G                                            G/B    C    
Me, I take the hand I?m dealt, and I play it as it lays
                  G    D               G         Cmaj7  D
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays

VERSE 2:
G                                    Cmaj7          G     
You can live in memories of all your golden yesterdays
G                         G/B            Dsus4          D       
Or spend your whole life grieving for the one that got away
G                                            G/B   C    
Common sense says let her go, but your heart disobeys
                   G   D               G       G/A - G/B
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays

BRIDGE:
C                           G     G/F#  Em               A            D
Blue shadows falling all around me,    still I don?t regret a single day

INSTRUMENTAL:  G     G7 G7/B  C       G   D   G    

VERSE 3:
G                                    Cmaj7   G        
I look in the mirror now, I see the time can be unkind
G                           Dsus4             D      
But I know every wrinkle, and I earned every line
G                                           G/B      C    
So wear it like a royal crown, when you get old and grey
                   G    D              G       G/A - G/B
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays
C                  G    D            Cmaj7     G      Cmaj7  D      G
It?s the cost of living, and everyone pays