WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY (Mary Chapin Carpenter) ------------------------------------------------- [I've no idea how Mary Chapin Carpenter plays this song. In concert, she plays it with a capo on the 7th fret. Since the song is in B, that would mean she's playing in E, and the verse chords are B E A A. She's clearly using a very strange tuning, because I can't for the life of me figure out how she's getting those chords out of the positions she uses. Any ideas'] [I'm going to write these chords down in the key of G, since I know that's where John Jennings plays them, with a capo on the 4th fret.] n.C. In this world there's a whole lot of trouble, baby n.C. In this world there's a whole lot of pain n.C. In this world there's a whole lot of trouble n.C. But a whole lot of ground to gain n.C. Why take when you could be giving, why watch as the world goes by n.C. It's a hard enough life to be living, why walk when you can fly

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^DIn this ^Gworld there's a ^Cwhole lot of ^Csorrow ^DIn this ^Gworld there's a ^Cwhole lot of ^Cshame ^DIn this ^Gworld there's a ^Cwhole lot of ^Csorrow And a ^Emwhole lotta ^Emground to ^Cgain ^C C C G G Am G/B C C When you spend your whole life wishing, wanting and wondering why It's a ^Dlong enough ^Glife to be ^Cliving, ^Cwhy ^Emwalk when ^Emyou can^C fly ^C

C C G G Am G/B C C D G C C Em Em C C [instrumental]

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- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Why walk when you can fly