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
[Gm] [F] [C] [C7]
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
Chorus
[Gm] [F] [C] [C7]
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
Verse 2
[Gm] [F] [C] [C7]
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
Chorus
[Gm] [F] [C] [C7]
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
Outro
[Gm] [F] [C] [C7] (x6)
(fading out)
