verse 1   E              B                       E  A 
 
         You wake one morning and it's past you by you don't 
  B                      E  A                   B 
when and you don't know why i feel like a old memory hanging 
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round. man you gotta face it, it's a young man's town. 
 
          E                      B          E    A 
verse 2  You knew this day was coming all along so why did  
     B                         E    A  
you moan and say it done you wrong just teach em what you 
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you know and pass it on down, cause man you gotta face it,  
                    E 
it's a young man's town. 
          E       A          E             A          E 
 Chrous: it's a young man's town full of young man's dreams 
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all of god's children gotta learn to spread there wings 
  A             B                      E 
sometimes you gotta stand back and watch em burn into the 
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ground even though you built it it's a young man's town. 
 
   Guitar solo... 
 
 
 
Verse 3  
         E                  B               E    A 
        You always seem to be the last to know, man it's  
          B                  E     A                      B 
just the way that the story goes there's nothing you can do 
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when the fields have turned around, man you gotta face it,  
                    E 
it's a young man's town. 
 
         E       A          E            A          E 
Chrous: it's a young man's town full of young man's dreams 
 A                            E                     B 
all of god's children gotta learn to speard there wings  
   A            B                     E 
sometimes you gotta stand back and watch em fall into the 
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ground, even though you built it, it's a young man's town. 
   A            B                    E 
sometimes you gotta stand back and watch em fall into the 
  C#m     A          B                         E  
ground, even you built it, it's a young man's town... 
 
it's a young man's town.