Chords for By Degrees (with Rosanne Cash)

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_ When [Eb] I take a look around, [Bb] sometimes I wish I was blind
[Eb] Feels like something sacred's dying
[Gm] One headline at a time and [Eb] I can't tear myself away
[Bb] No, I just [Ab] stare and [Eb]
disbelieve
_ [Ab] You can learn to [Gm] live with anything
[Cm] When it [Eb] happens [Bb] by degrees
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[Eb] I've seen every head bowed down
[Bb] As if lost in private prayer
[Eb] Seen the phones in every hand
[Gm] Seen the low and vacant stairs
[Eb] Souls gone numb and thumbing
[Gm] Through each [Ab] ceaseless [Eb] change in fee
You [Ab] can learn [Gm] to live with anything _
[Cm] When it [Eb] happens by [Bb] degrees
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_ _ [Bb] _ I've [Eb] seen talking heads shout back and [Bb] forth
Across some great divide
[Eb] Against a map of red and blue
[Gm] Points of view so cut and [Eb] dry
But when you look into the mirror
What color [Bb]
[Ab] country do you [Eb] see?
You [Ab] can learn to [Gm] live with anything
_ When [Eb] it happens [Bb] by degrees
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] I've _ _ [Eb] _ seen the flags at half-staff
[Bb] As a nation mourned and moaned
[Eb] Seen the stars and bars fly and cry
[Gm] Above the statehouse dome
[Eb] For the Charleston Nine we sing
[Bb] Once was blind [Ab] but now I [Eb] see
We [Ab] can learn to [Gm] live with anything
When [Cm] it [Eb] happens by [Bb]
degrees
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ And [Eb] I've seen little hands on little [Bb] shoulders
Children in a line
[Eb] I've seen them led away from school
[Gm] As the shots rang out in signing
[Eb] I thought something had to change
But [Gm] somehow it's [Abm] become [Eb] _ routine
We [Ab] can learn to [G] live [Gm] with anything _
[Cm] When it [Eb] happens [Bb] by degrees
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_ [Bb] _ _ And [Eb] I've seen sadness slip into my heart
[Bb] Each day a little more
[Eb] This darkness growing so familiar
Can't recall [Gm] what came before
My [Eb] children's faces filled with questions
[Bb] Looking [Ab] up expectantly
[Eb] _ _ And I [Ab] don't know [Gm] what to tell them
_ [Ab] I can't bring [Gm] myself to tell them
That you [Ab] can learn to live [Gm] with anything _ _
_ [Eb] When it happens [Bb] by degrees _
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