Citizen Cope – Lifeline tab
Chords:
Artist: Citizen Cope 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 Gm F C C7 When you're so dead wrong, let alone no one else Gm F C C7 Well the children still dying in the street, And babies still living with disease Gm F C C7 And the cops got guns, and the po folk got sons who work for Mr. Franklin every week Gm F C C7 ~(chorus)~ And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find Gm F C C7 Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime Gm F C C7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born Gm F C C7 To be sure to endure when the storm comes Gm F C C7 ~(verse 2)~ Got them sad eyes, got cat eyes, got the angels tired from saving his life Gm F C C7 And you could bet to contain yourself before you end up killed Gm F C C7 Get his bare feet touchin her bare feet, the air breathes sweet near mountains peak Gm F C C7 And I forgot what the wise man said about that ancient thread Gm F C C7 ~(chorus)~ And if you've come looking for hard times, hard times ain't hard to find Gm F C C7 Because we're given that lifeline, only once in a lifetime Gm F C C7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born Gm F C C7 To be sure to endure when the storm comes Gm F C C7 Baby we was born, maybe we were born Gm F C C7 To rejoice, rejoice when it succumbs Gm F C C7 ~(outro)~ Gm , F , C , C7 (x6) ~fading out~