High Steppin Chords by The Avett Brothers

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♪ High stepping, high betting, love getting, I'm a love getting ♪
♪ I'm a stranger, I love stretching [D] out my will ♪ _
[E] ♪ Overnight on the desert strip, making time and losing grip ♪
♪ Driving circles in the canyons [A] of my mind ♪
♪ I'm an outsider looking in, I got a perfect square ♪
♪ For a circle of friends, it's the four of us against the [D] rest of you ♪ _
[E] ♪ Really I am all alone, sell them out to save my own ♪
♪ I told them that but they don't [A] buy the truth ♪
♪ I'm a high stepping, high betting, love giving, I'm a love getting ♪
♪ I'm a stranger, I love stretching [D] out my will ♪ _
[E] ♪ Overnight on the desert strip, making time and losing grip ♪
♪ Driving circles in the canyons [A] of my mind ♪
[E] _ Well, it's warfare out there, folks.
[F] You're either working for success [F#m] or to be rich
or God help us famous,
[A] or you're working against the clock just to stay [D] afloat.
Got your nose all scraped up from [A] the grindstone.
You're digging for diamonds and only [B] finding rhinestones.
Meanwhile, [A] it's August and the tax man
has never heard of summer vacation.
[G#m] _ You're either working on yourself
or you're looking after [G#] babies, taking care
of your old [A] man or your old lady.
And the direct line to the hospital just says,
[E] leave a message.
[D] See, you can only live one day at a time,
[A] only drive one hot rod at a time,
[B] only say one word at a time
and only think one thought at a time.
And every soul is alone when the day [F#m] becomes night.
And there in the [A] dark, if you can try to see the light
in the most [D] pitch black shape of the loneliest shadow,
[F#m] well, then you ought to sleep well
because there's hope for [B] sure.
_ Well, I don't know about all that being true,
but [D] I do know this.
♪ The best [A] beggars are [D] choosers ♪
♪ The best [A] winners are losers [D] ♪
♪ The best [E] lovers ain't [A] never been loved ♪ _
[D] ♪ And first [A] place ain't [D] easy ♪
♪ The [A] hardest part is believing [D] ♪
♪ The very last [E] word is love _ ♪
_ _ [A] ♪ I'm a high stepping, high betting, love giving ♪
♪ I'm a stranger, I love stretching [D] out my will ♪
[E] ♪ Overnight on a desert strip, making time and losing grip ♪
♪ Driving circles in the canyons [A] of my mind ♪ _ _ _ _
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