Tift Merritt

Good Hearted Man Chords

Tift Merritt - Good Hearted Man




INTRO: C  Bm  Am  G  F  G  C

C                            F C 
Swore that I was living free
                 Em 
Oh, you couldn't talk to me 
        Am                 F 
And the pride that kept me
                    G 
Didn't want no company 


              C            F C 
Early morning subway train
            Em 
Feeling lost and running late 
         Am           F
Well, he held the car
                    G   Am   Em7   G 
He gave his seat to me 
 
 
CHORUS 1:
      C          G       Am       C              F  
And I can't find nothing feels so fine as loving
       G       C 
A good hearted man 
                      Em      Am             C          F
Oh, he can soothe me, free me, oh, I'm gonna marry that
     G       C 
Good hearted man 
 
 
                               F C
I told him that he'd better go 
                         Em 
'Cause I was crazy and impossible 
        Am              F 
That my love was broken
                     G 
My dreams had run off wild 


          C              F C
Patient as the easy rain
             Em     
Oh, he never turned away 
          Am               F
Calling, "Hey, sweet woman
                      G      Am   Em7   G 
You know you're not a child"
 
 
CHORUS 1:
      C          G       Am       C              F  
And I can't find nothing feels so fine as loving
       G       C 
A good hearted man 
                      Em      Am             C          F
Oh, he can soothe me, free me, oh, I'm gonna marry that
     G       C      G
Good hearted man 

 
BRIDGE: 
                         Am 
Good hearted man, now the night makes sense 
            Dm                       G 
Because your tenderness, it's sheltering me 
 
 
                      C             F C 
So I'm trading in that hot-head kid
               Em 
For a woman I can give to him 
             Am                  F 
And it ain't easy, but I'm gonna
             G    Am       Em7          G   
Do the best I can, oh that good hearted man, you know that
 
 
CHORUS: 
C          G       Am       C               F
Just ain't nothing feels so fine as loving
       G       C 
A good hearted man 
           C          G        Am            C          F 
Oh, he can soothe me, free me, oh, I'm gonna marry that
     G       C 
Good hearted man 
            C        G         Am           C               F   
Oh, and I'm grateful, grateful, got to say "Thank you" to a
     G       C   Am   Em7   G   F   G   C 
Good hearted man