John Cougar Mellencamp - Your Life Is Now Tab

[Intro] [Guitar 1 Acoustic] Play 2x

  
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[Verse]

  
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 1.  See  the  moon        roll across the  stars

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    See the seasons     turn like a     heart

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  Your fathers days are  lost to   you                          This is your


  
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   Time here   to do     what you will     do--------.           Your life is

As heard on Columbia Records John Mellencamp
1998 John Mellencamp All rights reserved

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     Now     Your life is   now  Your life is     now                                In this

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    Undiscovered moment               lift your  head  up  above  the   crowd        We could

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    Shake    this  world   if you would            only   show  us  how         Your life is now

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   Would you teach your children to tell the truth

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  Would you take the high road    if you could     choose

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  Do you believe you’re a victim of a great compromise----------.                Cause I believe

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   You change  your mind    and change our lives                                   your life is

 [Chorus]
 [Solo] Solo arrangement for guitar
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 [Intro 1x]
[Verse 3]
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    Would you teach your children     to tell the  truth                          This is your

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   Time                     to do what you will do                                    your life is

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