She Won't Let Me Fly Away

Words & Music by Bill Danoff
from Aerie (1971)


Moderatly INTRO

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Well, I wake up late in the afternoon,
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I eat my eggs to the evening news,
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and the sun’s gone down ‘fore I find my shoes,
       G     D   E               C#m        E7/Bbass
Music fills the air, but it’s all the blues.
     E                A      E
And she won’t let me fly away
A    	   		  E      D    A
she won’t let me fly away
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Well, we got no heat and the window’s broke,
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The storm rains came, ev’rything got soaked
             G    D   E              A                     A4   A
And there’s no bread left, nothing  here to smoke,
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Then the Lord looks down sayin’, 
 C#m        E7/Bbass      D    A
“Can’t you take a joke?
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The palm tree’s just a picture on a postcard,
    G#m             F#m           E
The ocean’s just a mem’ry in my dream,
       G#m         F#m           E
Then a man comes a T.V. sellin’ soapsuds
    D           A               E
To dirty up my rivers and my streams.
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Like a myst’ry movie without an end,
           G   D     E        A          A4    A
When you think it’s over, it just begins,
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It’s not always true that the good guy wins,
        G    D   E          C#m      E7/Bbass
I been down so long that I got the bends.
      E                A   E
And she won’t let me fly away

A
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away
she won’t let me fly away		

	Repeat with variations and fade.