Folk Singer Chords

"Folk Singer"(Benson/Falkner)
 From "Lapalco" (2002)
 
[Intro]
 
G  C  X4
 
[Verse]
 
        G                      C
Like a folk-singer's song I'm moving on,
         G                      C
and I'm not the kinda man that acts very strong
          G                 C
when the girls are looking on,
G                           C
when the girls are looking on. 
 
[Verse]
 
        G                      C
If you tied my hands and put chains on my feet,
       G                      C
I can picture myself walking down any street,
        G               C
telling people that I meet, 
       G                   C
"Psst! looks like rain to me". 
G                   C
Looks like rain to me. 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
 
G                     F                              Bb
every single day at eleven,I'm home in bed in sleep heaven,
               Am7                   G                     C
Alone 'Cos my girl leaves at seven, ain't got time for my bed-in,
                   Em              F
she says "Stop pretending, you're not John Lennon!"
 
[Chorus]
 
        G              C
Will I ever get over this, 
        G                       C
having tasted your lips with a kiss?
          G               Cm
You can cross me off your list,
            G                  F
take these cuffs from off my wrists,
      C        G
and drop your fists.
 
G C G
 
[Verse]
 
    G                          C
As soon as I'm well I'm gonna leave my house,
        G                 C
become more of a man and less like a mouse,
          G                     C
drive my car down south to the Mississippi's mouth,
        G                       F
to the Gulf Of Mexico I'll be soused...
 
[Verse]
 
 G                         C
Every girl I made in the shade of esplanade
   G                       C
I saved In a song that I play when I'm afraid
      G               C             G             F
of a full scale air raid from the choices that I made.
 
[Pre-Chorus]
 
G                     F                              Bb
every single day at eleven,I'm home in bed in sleep heaven,
               Am7                  G                     C
Alone 'Cos my girl leaves at seven,ain't got time for my bed-in,
                   Em             F
she says "Stop pretending,you're not John Lennon!"
 
[Chorus]
 
        G              C
Will I ever get over this, 
        G                       C
having tasted your lips with a kiss?
          G                Cm
You can cross me off your list,
            G                  F
take these cuffs from off my wrists,
      C        G    C G C            G    C
and drop your fists.......drop your fists! 
 
[Bridge]
 
 G             C7
da da da da de da de da de da....
           G                         C7
no matter how much you take of each song that i make,
         G                             C7
Im not fragile, I don't break and I'm down at the lake,
       G                   C7
and I hope someday you'll have it made
G                     F
with all that money that you rake.
 
[Verse]
 
        G                       C7
It was fun while it lasted but then it was blasted,
       G                   C7
right out of the water and into Fantastic.
    G                     C
now he feels shafted and she's already past it,
 G                     F
she's like elastic and he's just so spastic...
 
[Pre-Chorus]
 
G                     F                              Bb
every single day at eleven,I'm home in bed in sleep heaven,
               Am7                   G                     C
alone 'Cos my girl leaves at seven, ain't got time for my bed-in,
                   Em             F
she says "Stop pretending,you're not John Lennon!"
 
[Chorus]
 
        G              C
Will I ever get over this, 
        G                       C
having tasted your lips with a kiss?
          G               Cm
You can cross me off your list,
            G                  F    C
take these cuffs from off my wrists,
        G              C
Will I ever get over this, 
        G                       C
having tasted your lips with a kiss?
          G               Cm
You can cross me off your list,
      G              C
if I ever get over this! 
        G              C
Will I ever get over this, 
        G                       C
having tasted your lips with a kiss?
          G               Cm
You can cross me off your list,
            G                  F
take these cuffs from off my wrists,
      C        G
and drop your fists.
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