Melanie Safka - I Tried To Die Young Chords

CAPO: 2nd Fret
 
 
INTRO: C   
 
                      Dm7
I tried to die young, really I tried
        F                           C             
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb 
  Am           G                F   
I laugh at the things that I've done
       G            C    
When I tried to die young 
 
 
                                       Am               
I took a plane through the dawn, threw myself on the tracks
        F                       G             
But the train didn't come and I had to walk back 
         C                               Am             
I jumped into the whirlpool, thought I'd get sucked in
            F                      G                       
I just kept spinning around 'til I learned how to swim and I
 
 
C                   Dm7            
Tried to die young, boy, did I try
        F                           C            
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
      Am           G           F   
And I laugh at the things I've done
       G            C    
When I tried to die young 
 
 
         C                              Am                   
Well, my heart kept on breaking and the crack sought the edge
          F                            G               
Where the hand of a shadow grabbed the hand in my head 
           C                            Am            
There were demons, I know them and they still come by
    F                        G           
But we've become friends, my demons and I 
 
 
       C                   Dm7   
Well I tried to die young, really I tried
        F                           C             
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb 
      Am           G           F   
And I laugh at the things I've done
       G            C   
When I tried to die young 
 
 
         Am           Em7           F    G      
I took a razor to the wrist of reality
     Am         Em7              F    G     
Hell-bent on my way toward futility 
           Am          Em7           F              G      
I've got a reason to believe that it won't go on forever
    F                         G                     
But reason to the heart, is a message undelivered   
 
 
         C                           Dm7     
Ahhh,  I tried to die young, really, really I tried
        F                           C            
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
      Am           G           F    
And I laugh at the things I've done
       G            C         
When I tried to die young
 
 
     C                       Am   
Now I'm the old girl I never thought I'd become   
         F                                 G               
"Does it get any better?", asks the little girl in my song 
          C                                  Am                  
I'm still learning the answers, so I make up things you see   
                    F                         G            
She laughs, "You're still the same and you'll never kill me!"
 
 
      C                   Dm7   
Oh, I tried to die young, really I tried
        F                           C            
But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb
      Am           G           F    
And I laugh at the things I've done
       G            C     
When I tried to die young 
 
 
OUTRO:  (## repeat and adlib to end ##)
      Am           Em7         F      G   
Oh, I laugh at the things I've done
        Am           Em7         F     G   
Well, I laugh at the things I've done
  Am           G           F   
I laugh at the things I've done
       G            C      Dm7  F  C  Dm7  F  C    
When I tried to die young