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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] F C C C F C C C
CA cold wind against my shoulder Cwoke me up in the middle of the Cnight An Amautumn leaf was scraping against my window Like it was tryin' hard to get inCside And then a Fghost that I had met before he Ckept me up till dawn And Ceverything I thought was right was Fsuddenly all wrong He said "Cyour score is looking pretty bad" Then he asked me what it was that I had to Cshow
CSo I went runnin' down a list of things CSome were real, but on some of them I Clied 'Cause I Amfelt I had to justify each breath that I'd been breathin' in thisC life Then I Frealized I was playing into Csomeone else's rules CTryin' to keep my score up in a Fgame I did not choose Then I Clooked that ghost straight in the eye and said "You'd better not be coming bacCk by again"
CAnd it's true that I don't Fwork near as hard As you Ctell me that I'm supposed to C I don't run as fast as I Fcould But I live just the way I Cwant to And that's the way I Cshould
[Instrumental] F C C F F C C C
COctober's leaves were dancin' 'round Like Cangels dressed in robes of red and Cgold But AmNovember's come and gone now And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the Croad They're gonna Fmake their way out to the ditch or Csomeday to the sea But they'll Cget to where they're goin' without the Fhelp of you or me And if each Clife is just a grain of sand I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is Cmine
CAnd it's true that I don't Fwork near as hard As you Ctell me that I'm supposed to C I don't run as fast as I Fcould But I live just the way I Cwant to And that's the way I Cshould But FI live just the way I Cwant to And that's the way I Cshould
[Outro. Repeat To Fade] F C C C Chords: F = X32010 C = XX0232 Am = 022000 C = 320033 Transcribed by Jim Sparrow - 5th Feb 1998 Email: KidLoops@aol.com