Misc Mashups – Taylor Swift - The Lucky One - The Last Great American Dynasty (Guitar)

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new to town with a made up name

       Em
in the angel's city chasing fortune and

        C
and the camera flashes make it look

       G     D
like a dream

G
you had it figured out since you were

     Em
everybody loves pretty, everybody loves

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so overnight, you look like a 60s queen

      C             Em
another name goes up in lights

      C              D
like diamonds in the sky...

G             Am
 rebekah rode up on the afternoon

  C
train, it was sunny

     G                    Am
 her saltbox house on the coast took

               C
her mind off st. louis

G             Am
 bill was the heir to the standard oil

Em       C
name and money

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 and the town said, "how did a

Am                  C
middle-class divorcée do it?"

G                Am
 the wedding was charming, if a little

    C
gauche

                                 G
 there's only so far new money goes

                   Am
 they picked out a home and called it

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"holiday house"

G                   Am
 their parties were tasteful, if a

           Em
little loud

                C
 the doctor had told him to settle down

                   Am
 it must have been her fault his heart

  C
gave out

G
  they'll tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

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yeah, they'll tell you now

          D
you're the lucky one

    G
but can you tell me now

           D
you're the lucky one

C          G
oh, oh, oooh...

G
now it's big black cars and riviera

         Em
and your lover in the foyer doesn't

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and your secrets end up splashed on the

            G     D
 news front page

         G
and they tell you that you're lucky but

          Em
cause you don't feel pretty, you just

    C
and all the young things line up to

          G        D
take your place

        C               Em
another name goes up in lights

                     C            D
you wonder if you'll make it out alive

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 there goes the last great american

      G
dynasty

D              G
 who knows, if she never showed up,

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what could've been

D               G
 there goes the most shameless woman

     C
this town has ever seen

          D              G
she had a marvelous time ruining

          C
everything

G
and they'll tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

C
yeah, they'll tell you now

          D
you're the lucky one

    G
but can you tell me now

           D
you're the lucky one

C          G
oh, oh, oooh...

Am                 Em
  they say she was seen on occasion

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pacing the rocks, staring out at the

Am         Em
  and in a feud with her neighbor

G                     D
she stole his dog and dyed it key lime

Am      Em
  fifty years is a long time

G                 D
holiday house sat quietly on that beach

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  free of women with madness, their men

D
and then it was bought by me

G
it was a few years later I showed up

         Em
and they still tell the legend of how

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how you took the money and your dignity

                  G    D
 and got the hell out

G
they say you bought a bunch of land

        Em
chose the Rose Garden over Madison

       C
and it took some time, but I understand

    G           D
 it now...

             C             Em
cause now my name is up in lights

      C                D
but I think you got it right

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let me tell you now

          D
you're the lucky one

C
let me tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

G
let me tell you now

          D
you're the lucky one

C
oh, oh, oh...

G
yeah, they'll tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

C
yeah, they'll tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

G
let me tell you now

           D
you're the lucky one

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oh, oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh....