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Nothing I can do about it now

by Willie Nelson, Beth Nielsen Chapman · posted by harlezy2

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Tab
 -4   6 -6  -7  -7  -7   7    -7    -6   6  -3”  -3  -3    4
I've got a long list of real good rea – sons for all the things
-4    -4   -3”  -3 -3”   4     -3   4  -3   4  -3  4  -4  -4  -4
I've done. I've got  a   pic – ture in the back of my mind of what
-4   -4  -5  -4  -4    4   -3    6   -6     -7   -7    -7  7   -7
I've lost___ and what I've won. I've sur – vived ev – ery sit – u –
-6   6   -3”    -3    4  -3   4     -3  4   -3  -4  -3” -3    4
a – tion, know – ing when to freeze and when to run. And re – gret
-3  4  -3  -4    -4   4    -3  4 -3  -4    -4  -4   -4  -4    -4
is just a mem – 'ry writ – ten on my brow, and there is noth – ing
-4 -4 -7 -8 -7   -6  6  6     6    6  6 -7   -7 -7 7     -7
I can do a – b – out it now. I've got a wild and a rest – less
-6     6  -3”  -3  -3” -3    -3      4    -4  -4    -3”  -3  -3”
spir – it, I've got my price through ev – ery deal. I've seen the
 4   4 -3  4    -3    4    -4  -4   -5   -4  -4   4    -3    6
fire of a wom – an's scorn turn her heart of gold to steel. I've
6  -6   -7  -7 -7   7    -7     -6   6  -3  4  4  4    -3
got the song of the voice in – side me set to the rhy – thm
4  -3  -4    -3”  -3   4     4     -3  4  -3  -4
of the wheel. And I've been dream – in like a child
  4   -3  -3”  -3    4   -3   -4    -4   -4   -4
since the cra – dle broke the bough, and there is 
-4    -4  -4 -4 -7 -8  -7    -6  6   6
noth – ing I can do a – b – out it now.
(Chorus)
 6    6      6      5   -6      6   6    6    6     5
(Run – nin' through the chang – es, go – in' through the
-6     6   6     6    6      6    6   -5   5 -4 -4 4  -3
stag – es, com – in' 'round the cor – ners in my l—i--ife.
  6    6    6   5   6     6   -5   6    -7   6
Leav – in doubt to fate, stay – in' out too late, 
-7    -7  -7   -7   7  -7  -6  6     -6
wait – in for the moon to say good – night.

(last line)
-4  5 -4   -7  -7  -7   7   -7  -6    6    4   -3   4   4   -3  4
And I could cry for the time I wast – ed,but that's a waste of time
-3  -4     -3  4   4   -3   4   -3  -4     4  -3   4  -3    4   4
and tears. And I know just what I'd change if  I  went back in time
-3    -4   -4   -4   -4  -4    -4  -4 -4 -7 -8  -7   -6  6   6
some – how, but there is noth – ing I can do a – b – out it now.

(Repeat Chorus & last line)

-3 -3    4     -3   4   -3     -4     -3  -3     4     -3     4
I'm for – giv – ing ev – ery – thing, that for – give – ness will
-3   -4   -4   -4   -4  -4    -4 -4 -4 -7 -7  -7   -6  6   6
al – low, and there is noth – ing I can do a – b – out it now.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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