Stan Rogers – Take It From Day To Day chords

Take it from day to day
Stan Rogers
Album: From Coffee House to Concert Hall (2000)

Verse 1:
G                   C        D        GWell, it's not the hours of watch-on-watch,
G                 C           D       EmAnd it's not the work that I mind so much,
        G                       COr the long cold miles from my lover's touch,
             G          Am   D'Though for sure she's far away.
   G         C         D         GNo stranger, I, to the touch of steel,
        G      C        D       EmOr the honest fear any man can feel,
       G               CBut I long for dust under my heels
       G              Am  And a pocket full of pay
C       G             D      GSo I'll take it from day to day.

Verse 2:
G              C        D          GThe pack-ice 'round us cracks and groans;
G            C         D          EmThe old St. Roch, she creaks and moans.
     G          CThe icy fog is in my bones,
         G         Am   DAnd the ache won't go away.
G          C        D        GOutside I bet it's warm and fair.
G                 C       D     EmI could have her fingers in my hair,
          G                   CBut it's long, cold miles to her out there
      G                  Am  So I guess I'll have to stay
C         G            D      GAnd just take it from day to day!

Chorus:
          D                  G       CWe're as far North now as I want to come,
     C               GBut Larsen's got us under his thumb,
    D                    G            CAnd I signed up for the whole damned run,
  Am                  DI can't get off half way.
         G      C     D       GBut when I get back unto the shore,
G          C           D        EmI'm going South where it stays warm,
     G                   CAnd there'll be someone on my arm
    G                AmTo help me spend my pay,
C        G            D      GSo I'll take it from day to day. 

(fiddle solo over same chords as verse) 

(repeat chorus)

(fiddle solo over first half of verse)
    G        C          D        GNo stranger, I, to the touch of steel
         G      C       D        EmAnd the honest fear any man can feel,
       G               CBut I long for dust under my heels
       G              AmAnd a pocket full of pay,
C        G            D      GSo I'll take it from day to day.


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