Richard Thompson

A Love You Cant Survive Ukulele Chords

A Love You Can't Survive
 
Bm                 A
Now I remember the promise I gave you
    A                        Am   
The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer
      Bm                       A
As we sat holding hands in the Lamb and Flag tavern
  A                         Am   
I swore I’d be back for you same time next year

But I killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight
I tried to hold back, but he taunted me so
5 years till they freed me from that Brazzaville prison
Out of boredom or pity, I never will know

Chorus:
    A                      A
Now I bear the stain, the scar on my name
      A     A            A Bm
And I never can go back again
Bm        Am       A              Bm        Am       A
There’s a love you can’t survive, there’s a love you can’t survive
A                     A     A                  A         Bm  Bm
And it tears you up inside, there’s a love you can’t survive

I sailed my boat into New Orleans harbour
Tied up at the jetty, as bold as you please
With a half-ton of charlie built in to the bulkhead
Right under the noses of all them police

Now here I sit in my house on the mountain
I’m King of the clouds and all I survey
There’s women who are willing, and the law can’t touch me
But yours is the one face that won’t go away

Chorus 




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