Lifeline

Song: Lifeline Album: The Rainwater LP These chords can be played in full, but it sounds most like the recording when you mute the E strings. Listen to the recording for the strum pattern and the pull offs, hammer ons and slides done during chord transitions. Gm - X5533X F - X3321X C - X3201X (transition to X3301X just before going to the C7) C7 - X3231X ~(intro)~ Gm , F , C , C7 (x2) ~(verse 1)~ When you're so long gone, you can't help yourself GFC7 When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else GFC7 Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease GC7 And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week GFC7 ~(chorus)~ And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find GFC7 Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime GFCC7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born GFC7 To be sure to endure when the storm comes GFC7 ~(verse 2)~ Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life GFC7 And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed GFC7 Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak GFC7 And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread GFC7 ~(chorus)~ And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find GFC7 Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime GFCC7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born GFC7 To be sure to endure when the storm comes GFC7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born GFC7 To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs GFCC7 ~(outro)~ Gm , F , C , C7 (x6) ~fading out~