Never Die Young (Capo 4th Fret)
Intro-C F G Am F Fmaj7 C F E Am F Fmaj7
G Am F G Am F G Am F G Am F G Am F
C F G C F G
We were ring-around-the-rosy children, they were circles around the sun.
Am F Fmaj7 G Am F Fmaj7 G
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old, never ever die young.
C F G C F G
Synchronized with the rising moon, even with the evening star,
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they were true love written in stone,
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they were never alone, they were never that far apart.
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And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it,
F G
we got to close our eyes.
F G F G
Cut up our losses into doable doses, ration our tears and sighs.
C F G
Oh, you could see them on the street on a Saturday night.
C F G
Everyone used to run them down.
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They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight,
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not enough tough for this town.
C F G
Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole,
C F G
no, it didn't seem to rattle at all.
Am F Fmaj7 G
They were glued together body and soul,
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Am F Fmaj7 G C F G Am F Fmaj7
that much more with their backs up against the wall.
G Am F G Am F G
Oh, hold them up, hold them up, never do let them fall
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pray to the dust and the rust and the ruin that names us
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and claims us and shames us all.
(Instrumental) F G F G F G F Am G
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I guess it had to happen someday soon- wasn't nothing to hold them down.
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They would rise from among us like a big balloon,
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take the sky, forsake the ground.
C F G C F G
Oh, yes, other hearts were broken, yeah, other dreams ran dry
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but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky.
C F G C F G
(Let other hearts be broken, let other dreams run dry)
Am F Fmaj7
but our golden ones sail on,
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sail on to another land beneath another sky,
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beneath another sky.
G Am F G Am F G Am F G
Hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up,
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hold them up…
(Hold them up, don’t let them fall).
