Mary Chapin Carpenter – Why Walk When You Can Fly (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# ------------------------------------------------- [I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song. In concert, she plays it with a capo on the 7th fret. Since the song is in B, that would mean she's playing in E, and the verse chords are B E A A. She's clearly using a very strange tuning, because I can't for the life of me figure out how she's getting those chords out of the positions she uses. Any ideas?] [I'm going to write these chords down in the key of G, since I know that's where John Jennings plays them, with a capo on the 4th fret.]
n.C.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble, baby

n.C.
In this world there's a whole lot of pain

n.C.
In this world there's a whole lot of trouble

n.C.
But a whole lot of ground to gain

n.C.
Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by

n.C.
It's a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly

D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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C  C  G  G    Am  G/B  C  C   D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow

D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of shame

D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of sorrow

      Em          Em        C     C
And a whole lotta ground to gain

         C            C        G      G   Am          G/B       C    C
When you spend your whole life wishing,   wanting and wondering why

       D           G          C       C   Em        Em     C    C
It's a long enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly

C  C  G  G    Am  G/B  C  C   D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of golden

D       G               C            C
In this world there's a whole lot of plain

D       G              C          C
In this world you've a soul for a compass

      Em          Em      C     C
And a heart for a pair of wings

          C           C     G    G        Am           G/B  C    C
There's a star on the far horizon, rising bright in an azure sky

        D           G                C      C   Em        Em      C    C
For the rest of the time that you're given, why walk when you can fly

D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C
high... [instrumental]

D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C

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D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    D  G  C  C    Em  Em  C  C.

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