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The Way I Should - Written by Iris DeMent >From The Album "The Way I Should" - Iris DeMent ===================================================== Capo 4th Fret [Intro] C D G G C D G G
GA cold wind against my shoulder Dwoke me up in the middle of the Gnight An Emautumn leaf was scraping against my window Like it was tryin' hard to get inGside And then a Cghost that I had met before he Dkept me up till dawn And Geverything I thought was right was Csuddenly all wrong He said "Dyour score is looking pretty bad" Then he asked me what it was that I had to Gshow
GSo I went runnin' down a list of things DSome were real, but on some of them I Glied 'Cause I Emfelt I had to justify each breath that I'd been breathin' in thisG life Then I Crealized I was playing into Dsomeone else's rules GTryin' to keep my score up in a Cgame I did not choose Then I Dlooked that ghost straight in the eye and said "You'd better not be coming bacGk by again"
GAnd it's true that I don't Cwork near as hard As you Dtell me that I'm supposed to G I don't run as fast as I Ccould But I live just the way I Dwant to And that's the way I Gshould
[Instrumental] C D G C C D G G
GOctober's leaves were dancin' 'round Like Dangels dressed in robes of red and Ggold But EmNovember's come and gone now And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the Groad They're gonna Cmake their way out to the ditch or Dsomeday to the sea But they'll Gget to where they're goin' without the Chelp of you or me And if each Dlife is just a grain of sand I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is Gmine
GAnd it's true that I don't Cwork near as hard As you Dtell me that I'm supposed to G I don't run as fast as I Ccould But I live just the way I Dwant to And that's the way I Gshould But CI live just the way I Dwant to And that's the way I Gshould
[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