Chords for Richard Thompson - A Love You Can't Survive - NYC 2003

[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
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[A] Now I remember [F] the promise I gave you [C] the night I shipped out [D] as a peace volunteer
_ [Am] As we start holding hands [F] and the line will flood Tavern
[C] _
Swore I'll be back for [G] you [D] same time _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [A]
I killed a man [F] in a Brazzaville street fight [C] I tried to hold back but he [Dm] taunted [D] me so
_ [Am] Five years till it freed me from [F] that Brazzaville prison [C] out aboard a more petty
[D] I never will
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] But [F] I
Bear the _ stain
_ _ [G] The sky on my name
_ [Dm] And _ I'll never _ [F] go _ back
[G] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ There's _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ a [D]
love
_ Love you can't survive
[G] _ _ _ There's _ _ [Am] _
a _ _ [Dm] love _ _
[D] Love you can't _ survive
_ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Tempting [G] that tears you up _ _ inside _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
So love [G] you can't [D] _ survive
_ [E] _ _ I [Em] _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
sailed [A] my boat [F] and to New Orleans Harbor
[C] Tied up at the jetty [D] as bold as he pleased
[A] with a half-ton of Charlie
[F] Built into the bulkhead [C] right under
the noses [Dm] of all them police
_ _ And _ _ [Am]
now here I sit [F] in my house on the mountain
[C] I'm king of the clouds [D] and all I survey
_ [A] There's women who are willing [F] and the law can't touch me
[C] But yours is the one [D] face that won't go [Dm] away
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _
But I
Bear the stain _
_ [G] _ _ Sky _ _ on my name
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [D]
I'll never [F] _ _ And go
_ [G] _
_ _ There's [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [Am] _ _ _ [D] a love
_ _ _ _ Oh
_ _ [G] There's _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ a _ [D] love _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
Tears
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ Tears _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
Tears you up
_ _ _ [F] Inside
There's a love
_ There's a love
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ A love you can't [Dm] survive _ _
There's [F] a love
_ [G] There's a love
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ There's a love _ _
There's a love
You [G] can't survive _ _
[Em] Thank _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ you very much, thank you.
I'll give you a bit of light relief now, it's a bit heavy man.
_ Heavy set,