Intro -x4-: A    D    A    E 

Verse 1:
               A       D   A       E
And he says, "What do you love to do?
  A           D
Outside your world,
 A          E
Who spends time with you?
 A           D    A                E
Whom do you love when you're not working?
  A        D      A     E
Sweet Girl...

Verse 2:
A             D
Where would you go,
A               E
If you had the time?
   A           D         A        E
Crossing some crazy State-line somewhere?
    A           D
To whom do you cry?
  A          E
People are unkind,
  A        D      A      E
Sweet Girl..."

Chorus:
                 F                G             A
But I chose to dance across the stages of the world.
   F      G              A
Everyone said I'd never learn...
    F         G         A                     F
And I still hear your words, "Well, I waited all my
 G            F   G    A
life for you....Sweet Girl..."

Verse 3:
A      D      A              E
I did try to come back and listen...
 A          D
you never knew it...
A         E
I didn't wish it...
    A      D           A                E
And I did hear every answer of every question...
      A            D        A       E
It's all about protection....

Verse 4:
  A                 D       A       E
Still through the sunlight days I wait...
  A             D
Track a ghost through the fog....
 A           E
The sun is burning me...
     A        D
And you come runnin' out...
        A        E
In the wind with me...
      A             D       A        E
The ocean is your blanket...

Chorus:
                 F                G            A
But I chose to dance across the stages of the world...
 F        G               A
Everyone said I'd never learn...
F        G         A                      F      G        A
I still hear your words, "Well, I waited all my life for you...
               F               G
I watched you fly through the world.
       A
In a golden ball...
 F             G            A
Many are the cities that I never saw at all..."
   F          G               A
Sometimes I feel like I was always on-call
  F            G       A
Sometimes even I am allowed to fall...

Outro:
            F             G
He says, "Come down here for a
  A             F             G       A
minute...Well, come down here for a minute...."
           F              G       A      F
He says, "Come down here for a minute, Sweet Girl...
G       A
Sweet Girl...