Tablature the way i should - Iris DeMent

          



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  The Way I Should - Written by Iris DeMent

  >From The Album "The Way I Should" - Iris DeMent

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  Capo 4th Fret

  

  

  [Intro]

  

  C   D   G   G   C   D   G   G

  

  G                               D                               G

  A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night

     Em

  An autumn leaf was scraping against my window

                                   G

  Like it was tryin' hard to get inside

             C                              D

  And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up till dawn

      G                                  C

  And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong

                D

  He said "your score is looking pretty bad"

                                             G

  Then he asked me what it was that I had to show

  

  

  G

  So I went runnin' down a list of things

  D                                     G

  Some were real, but on some of them I lied

           Em

  'Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that

                            G

  I'd been breathin' in this life

         C                           D

  Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules

  G                               C

  Tryin' to keep my score up in a game I did not choose

         D

  Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said

                                      G

  "You'd better not be coming back by again"

  

  

  G                          C

  And it's true that I don't work near as hard

         D

  As you tell me that I'm supposed to

  G                         C

   I don't run as fast as I could

                            D

  But I live just the way I want to

                       G

  And that's the way I should

  

  

  [Instrumental]

  

  C   D   G   C   C   D   G   G

  

  

  G

  October's leaves were dancin' 'round

       D                                  G

  Like angels dressed in robes of red and gold

      Em

  But November's come and gone now

                                                G

  And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the road

                C                                  D

  They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea

              G                                      C

  But they'll get to where they're goin' without the help of you or me

              D

  And if each life is just a grain of sand

                                             G

  I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is mine

  

  

  G                          C

  And it's true that I don't work near as hard

         D

  As you tell me that I'm supposed to

  G                         C

   I don't run as fast as I could

                            D

  But I live just the way I want to

                       G

  And that's the way I should

      C                     D

  But I live just the way I want to

                       G

  And that's the way I should

  

  

  [Outro. Repeat To Fade]

  

  C   D   G   G

  

  

  Chords:

  C  = X32010

  D  = XX0232

  Em = 022000

  G  = 320033

  

  

  

  Transcribed by Jim Sparrow - 5th Feb 1998

  Email: KidLoops@aol.com

  

  

   


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