Nanci Griffith – The Wing And The Wheel (Guitar Live Tab)

Capo 5
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Notes: The song is pretty much the first 8 bars on repeat. In the live version she plays a few bars with variations, although without much regularity. I've tried to tab them as I hear them, but I would focus more on getting those first eight down and then you can play your own variations as you like, as Nanci does. Hope this is useful. Thanks. [Intro]
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   *applause*  ...thank you...

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                                        sometimes in life we look
around at one another...

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       ...become very copmlacent....

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        ...this is a song that I wrote for two friends of mine, that...

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   ...reminded me in the most glorious way that, there's never any
need for any human being to ever be complacent...

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[Verse 1]
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   The wing and the wheel, well they, carry things away...

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   whether it's me that does the leaving, or the love that flies away...

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   The moon outside my window, it looks so, lonely tonight...

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   There is a chunk out of its middle, it's big enough for an old fool
 to hide
[Refrain]
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[Verse 2]
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   Now where are all the dreamers, that I used to know

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   We used to linger beneath streelamps, with our halos in the smoke...

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   Then the wing and the wheel, it came to, carry them away

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   now they all live out in the suburbs, where their dreams are in
their children at play
[Refrain]
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[Verse 3]
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   It's a pale sky in the east, all the stars are in the west

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   Oh and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest

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   'Cus the wing and the wheel, they're gonna, carry us along

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   And we'll have memories for company...
[Outro]
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    Long after the songs... are sung... so long now...

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