Standard tuning
Capo: 1
C: X32010
G: 320003
Am: X02210
F: XX3211
E: 022100
C G Am
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------1--1--1-------0--0--0--][-------0h1p0--1--------]
------0--0--0-------0--0--0--][---------2----2--------]
------2--2--2-------0--0--0--][-------0h2p0--2--------]
--3-------------------0h2----][--0-----------0---0h2--]
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C G Am
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------1--1--1-------0--0--0--][-------0h1p0--1---]
------0--0--0-------0--0--0--][---------2----2---]
------2--2--2-------0--0--0--][-------0h2p0--2---]
--3--------------------------][--0-----------0---]
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C F G C
She can hear those words of her mama still
C F G
The talk of the ways and the always-will-be's
F G Am
She'd laugh at the time and pretend to be free
F G C G Am
But she'd never run far from the legacy
C F G C
She's trying the wind like the crack of a whip
C F G
She places her fingertips up to her lips
F G Am
She thinks of a feeling she can't quite recall
F G
And a few days when she'd been ahead of it all
F C G C
Where she'd stepped past the clocks, stepped high and wide
F C G C
Strong and true to the other side
F C G Am
Kicking away all the mud from her heels
F C
To the time of the dance, to the second chance
F C E Am
To the dust of the hours passed under the wheels
F G C G Am
Oh, she'd step to the time of the dance
She says sometimes being a husband and wife
Can feel like a fight against natural life
And that there is no bigger chain on your soul
And you're always dancing out in the cold
But sometimes the light hits the side of his face
And it fills up her heart like a warm embrace
She knows that the struggle is more than a daze
More than the words that her mama could say
Well, they stepped past the clocks, stepped high and wide
Strong and true to the other side
Kicking away all the mud from their heels
To the time of the dance, to the second chance
To the dust of the hours passed under the wheels
Oh, they stepped to the time of the dance
F C Am E
She said, "Turn off the TV, hush all the sound
F G Am
Till all you can hear is the rain
F C Am E
We'll just slip out the doorway and let the rain fall down
F G
And feel all the life rushing back to our veins
Oh, we'll step past the clocks, step high and wide
Strong and true to the other side
Kicking away all the mud from our heels
To the time of the dance, to the second chance
To the dust and the hours passed under the wheels
F G Am G Am
Oh, we'll step to the time of the da - a - ane
F G C G Am
Oh, we'll step to the time of the dance"