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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]
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A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night[/tab]
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An autumn leaf was scraping against my window[/tab]
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Like it was tryin hard to get inside[/tab]
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And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up till dawn[/tab]
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And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong[/tab]
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He said "your score is looking pretty bad"[/tab]
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Then he asked me what it was that I had to show[/tab]
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So I went runnin down a list of things[/tab]
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Some were real, but on some of them I lied[/tab]
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Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that[/tab]
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I d been breathin in this life[/tab]
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Then I realized I was playing into someone else s rules[/tab]
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Tryin to keep my score up in a game I did not choose[/tab]
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Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said[/tab]
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"You d better not be coming back by again"[/tab]
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And it s true that I don t work near as hard[/tab]
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As you tell me that I m supposed to[/tab]
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I don t run as fast as I could[/tab]
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But I live just the way I want to[/tab]
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And that s the way I should[/tab]
[Instrumental]
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October s leaves were dancin round[/tab]
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Like angels dressed in robes of red and gold[/tab]
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But November s come and gone now[/tab]
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And they re lyin in the gutter out along the road[/tab]
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They re gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea[/tab]
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But they ll get to where they re goin without the help of you or me[/tab]
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And if each life is just a grain of sand[/tab]
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I m tellin you man, this grain of sand is mine[/tab]
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And it s true that I don t work near as hard[/tab]
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As you tell me that I m supposed to[/tab]
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I don t run as fast as I could[/tab]
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But I live just the way I want to[/tab]
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And that s the way I should[/tab]
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But I live just the way I want to[/tab]
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And that s the way I should[/tab]
[Outro. Repeat To Fade]
Chords:
= X32010
= XX0232
= 022000
= 320033
Transcribed by Jim Sparrow - 5th Feb 1998
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