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{t: Race is on, The } {key: C} {artist:George Jones} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfhVPU8BK-A {c: } [NC] I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside Like [F] my heart's sprung a big [C] break [C] And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful [D] That I may never [G7] shake [C] Now you might say that I was taking it hard [F] Since you wrote me off with a [C] call [C] But don't you wager that I'll hide the sorrow When I may [G7] break right down and [C] bawl {c: } [NC] Now the race is [C] on and here comes pride up the backstretch [F] Heartaches are going to the [C] inside [C] My tears are holding back [D] They're trying not to [G7] fall [C] My heart's out of the running [F] True love's scratched for another's [C] sake [C] The race is on and it looks like heartaches And the [G7] winner loses [C] all {c: } Instrumental - Verse 1 (Use [C] instead of [NC] ) {c: } [NC] One day I had ventured in love, [C] never once suspecting What the [F] final results would [C] be [C] How I lived in fear of waking up each morning And [D] finding that you'd gone from [G7] me [C] There's aching and pain in my heart For the day was the [F] one that I hated to [C] face [C] Somebody new came up to win her And I came [G7] out in second [C] place {c: } [NC] Now the race is [C] on and here comes pride up the backstretch [F] Heartaches are going to the [C] inside [C] My tears are holding back [D] They're trying not to [G7] fall [C] My heart's out of the running [F] True love's scratched for another's [C] sake [C] The race is on and it looks like heartaches And the [G7] winner loses [C] all