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FADING LADY
by Jerry Jeff Walker
(This version transcribed from McKendree Spring 3)
Start/CHORUS:
Dcount all your Gjewelry Gand your Dlace
Dcount all the Gshoes beBmneath your Abed
Dand while your Gcounting all those Gthings in your Dhead
Ctry and wrest the Gsorrow from your Dface
V1
Bmwhen you were Gyoung you courted
Bmall the pretty Eboys
Bmand laughed aGloud with ones they kAnew
Bmand soon you Gwalked and talked
and Bmthought just like them EtoAo
Bmand now you C#mwonder Dwhat's become of Eyou
[CHORUS]
V2
when you chose one to be your husband for your life
you weighed his good point by his gain
his promised security was fulfilled and you felt fine
now in your age those mellow years won't sustain 
[CHORUS]
V3
now for imagination
where you seek out the one
who live a life of dreams they build
you have no gifts to share 
you've nothing for no one
so just watch the colors fade as you start to wilt
[CHORUS]

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Fading Lady

by Jerry Jeff Walker

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C#m

FADING LADY

by Jerry Jeff Walker

(This version transcribed from McKendree Spring 3)

Start/CHORUS:

D G G D

count all your jewelry and your lace

D G Bm A

count all the shoes beneath your bed

D G G D

and while your counting all those things in your head

C G D

try and wrest the sorrow from your face

Bm G

when you were young you courted

Bm E

all the pretty boys

Bm G A

and laughed aloud with ones they knew

Bm G

and soon you walked and talked

Bm E A

and thought just like them too

Bm C#m D E

and now you wonder what's become of you

[CHORUS]

when you chose one to be your husband for your life

you weighed his good point by his gain

his promised security was fulfilled and you felt fine

now in your age those mellow years won't sustain

[CHORUS]

now for imagination

where you seek out the one

who live a life of dreams they build

you have no gifts to share

you've nothing for no one

so just watch the colors fade as you start to wilt

[CHORUS]

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