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Never Die Young by James Taylor - Guitar Chords

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            [Intro]
C  F  G  Am  F  Fmaj7  C  F  E  Am  F   Fmaj7 
G  Am  F   G  Am  F  G  Am  F  G   Am  F  G Am F

[Verse]
C                        F     G        C                F        G
We were ring-around-the-rosy children, they were circles around the sun.
Am          F  Fmaj7        G   Am         F    Fmaj7             G
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old, never ever die young.
C                       F     G     C               F      G
Synchronized with the rising moon, even with the evening star,
Am               F  Fmaj7         G 
they were true love written in stone,
Am               F     Fmaj7                G          C  F  Am
they were never alone, they were never that far apart.
F                             G                                                 
And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it,
F                     G
we got to close our eyes.
F                       G            F                      G
Cut up our losses into doable doses, ration our tears and sighs.
               C                           F         G
Oh, you could see them on the street on a Saturday night. 
C                 F       G
Everyone used to run them down.
           Am          F          Fmaj7            G    
They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight, 
Am          F        Fmaj7  G
not enough tough for this town.
C                           F        G          
Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole,
C                       F       G
no, it didn't seem to rattle at all.
        Am      F       Fmaj7      G
They were glued together body and soul, 
       Am  F              Fmaj7      G          C    F  G  Am  F  Fmaj7
that much more with their backs up against the wall.
G             Am   F        G    Am       F        G
Oh, hold them up, hold them up, never do let them fall
Am           F           G            Am          F                      
pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin that names us
     G             Am
and claims us and shames us all.

[Instrumental]   
F  G  F  G  F  G  F  Am G

[Verse]
    C                    F       G       C               F          G      
I guess it had to happen someday soon- wasn't nothing to hold them down.
Am          F                      Fmaj7    G     
They would rise from among us like a big balloon,
Am        F    Fmaj7       G
take the sky, forsake the ground.
C               F            G      C            F         G
Oh, yes, other hearts were broken, yeah, other dreams ran dry
        Am      F   Fmaj7     G          Am       F  Fmaj7    G      C   
but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky.
  C          F         G     C           F         G
(Let other hearts be broken, let other dreams run dry)
        Am      F   Fmaj7    
but our golden ones sail on,
 G      Am          F   Fmaj7      G     C   F    G   Am 
sail on to another land beneath another sky,
F        G      C       F   E  Am  F    Fmaj7    
beneath another sky.

[Outro]
G         Am    F       G    Am        F   G        Am    F       G          
Hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up,
Am         F
hold them up… 
        

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