A Love You Can't Survive
[Am]Now I remember the [F]promise I gave you
The [C]night I shipped out as a [Dm]peace volunteer
As we [Am]sat holding hands in the [F]Lamb and Flag tavern
I [C]swore I?d be back for you [Dm]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:
Now [F]I bear the stain, the s[G]car on my name
And I [D]never [F]can go back a[G]ga[Em]in
[Am]There?s a [Dm]love you [G]can?t survive, [Am]there?s a [Dm]love you [G]can?t survive
[F]And it tears you up in[G]side, [F]there?s a love you [G]can?t surv[Em]ive[Am]
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
by: Jos Duarte
[email protected]
[Am]Now I remember the [F]promise I gave you
The [C]night I shipped out as a [Dm]peace volunteer
As we [Am]sat holding hands in the [F]Lamb and Flag tavern
I [C]swore I?d be back for you [Dm]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:
Now [F]I bear the stain, the s[G]car on my name
And I [D]never [F]can go back a[G]ga[Em]in
[Am]There?s a [Dm]love you [G]can?t survive, [Am]there?s a [Dm]love you [G]can?t survive
[F]And it tears you up in[G]side, [F]there?s a love you [G]can?t surv[Em]ive[Am]
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
by: Jos Duarte
[email protected]
