e-------------------------------3-------2-------2----------|
b---------------1-------1-------3---------------3---------- |
g---------------2-----------------------2-------2----------|
d-------2-------2-------2---------------1------------------|
a-------2---- -----------3-------2-------2------------------|
e-------------------------------3--------------------------|

Optional variations/additions to those chords:

Em Am C Bm Bm F# F# F#

e-------3------(3)-----(3)------7---------------------------------------|
b-------3-------1(3)----1-- -----7-------4-----------------------3-------|
g---------------2---------------8-------4-----------------------2-------|
d-------2-------2 -------2-------9-------4---------------4---------------|
a-------2---------------3-------9-------2---------------4---------------|
e------ -------------------------7---------------2-------2-------2-------|

Chords for the 2nd and 3rd Verses!

*** Note the hammer-ons... He does repeatedly for the Em and Am chords in both the
verse and chorus (mostly in the verse). You can figure out the strumming on your own
- experiment...

Em Am or Am or Am

e------------------------------------------|
b---------------0h1-----1-------0h1--------|
g---------------2-------0h2-----0h2------- -|
d-------0h2-----2-------0h2-----0h2--------|
a-------0h2--------------------------------|
e------------------------------------------|

Song:

VERSE 1 (Plucking, finger-picking, and light strumming)

Em
It takes a crane to build a crane
Am
It takes two floors to make a story
C
It takes an egg to make a hen
C
It takes a hen to make an egg
G Bm
There is no end to what I'm saying

Em
It takes a thought to make a word
Am
And it takes some word to make an action
C
And It takes some work to make it work
C
It takes some good to make it hurt
G Bm
It takes some bad for satisfaction

CHORUS (Plucking, finger-picking, and light strumming)

Em Am
La la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional transition into the Em chord)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D
Al la la la la

VERSE 2 (Strumming)

Em
It takes a night to make it dawn
Am
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
C
It takes some old to make you young
C
It takes some cold to know the sun
G B
It takes the one to have the other

(-----This is where the drums would come in------)

Em
And It takes no time to fall in love
Am
But it takes you years to know what love is
C
And It takes some fears to make you trust
C
It takes those tears to make it rust
G B
It takes the dust to have it polished

CHORUS 2

Em Am
Ha la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D Em (keep playing this chord until next verse)
Ah la la la la la la life is so...

BRIDGE

Just keep playing variations of that Em chord (that you just ended on - from Chorus 2)

VERSE 3

Em
It takes some silence to make sound
Am
And It takes a loss before you found it
C
And It takes a road to go nowhere
C
It takes a toll to make you care
G B
It takes a hole to make a mountain

CHORUS 3

Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D G (F# - optional)
Ah la la la la la la love is meaningful
Em Am
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
D D
Ah la la la la la la...
Em
It is so wonderful
Em (like the Bridge - just keep playing this chord until the end)
It is so meaningful
Em
It is so wonderful
Em
It is meaningful
Em
It is wonderful
Em
And meaningful
Em
It goes full circle
Em
Wonderful
Em
Meaningful
Em
Full Circle
Em
Wonderful
...