Chords for John Martyn - Ballad of An Elder Woman (Cover)

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_ _ _ Woman, don't you feel _ sad when [C] you see life [G] go round?
_ [C] And you realize that you've been drinking all of your [G] years like wine _ _ _
_ _ _ You're gambling _ with time and [C] you know you just [G] can't win
_ [C] But still you feel that somehow you just gotta keep [G] on trying _ _ _
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Woman, it's your _ heart _
[A] _ I [G] hear crying _ _ _
_ _ A young man by your side [C] is your husband or so [G] you say
_ [C] In reality he's a link with the past, he's just gone, [G] gone to place
_ You _ _ _ _ tell the world you're happy when [C] you're lying in his [G] arms
Oh, [C] but his youth has made you hate to see [G] his face _ _ _
_ _ _ Woman, _ _ _ _ it's your _ _ heart _ I hear crying _ _ _
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_ _ Yeah, you're standing like some tree [C] when the blossom has blown [G]
away
And [C] the last leaf has gone crumbling, tumbling towards [G] the ground _ _ _
_ You have nothing to teach me, you just [C] have nothing at all to [G]
say
Except to keep [C] on telling me about all the happiness that you do think you [G] have found
But _ _ _ _ woman, _ _ _ _ it's your _ heart [A] _
_ [G] I hear crying _ _ _
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