Balladen Om K Chords by Björn Afzelius

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_ _ _ [F] I'm not [C] sick, [G] not sick.
_ _ _ [C] _ I'm [F] not sick, [G] not sick.
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I'm [G] just tired, [C] so [F] terribly tired.
But I'm [G] not sick, [C] not sick.
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_ He came [F] like a [C] summer [G]
wind, _ _ [C] and love [F] was like [G] a wave.
_ _ _ [F] He gave [G] me a child, [C] then he gave [F] himself up.
I was young, [G] I understood [C] nothing.
_ _ _ He _ [F] just wanted [G] to be free, _ _ [C] and live [F] his _ [G] own life. _
But shame [G] was mine, [C] it burned [F] my skin, and I [G] could not [C] stand it.
_ _ So I took my child from [G] my home. _ _
[C] Here we fled [F] to the big [G] city.
_ _ _ [F] To [G] streets and streets, [C] to bulls [F] and bulls, to cars [G] in the fire, in [C] light and concrete. _ _ _
But I did not get [F] a _ [G] job, _ _ [C] so we sat [F] in our _
[G] apartment.
In the darkness, _ _ [F] in the [G] darkness, _ _ [C] in the [F] loneliness, _ a tear [G] on the floor.
[C] _ _
_ _ _ But I did [F] not get sick, [G] not sick.
_ _ [C] No, I did [Fm] not get sick, not [G] sick. _ _ _
[Fm] No, I was just [G] tired, _ [C] so [F] terribly tired.
But I did [G] not get sick, [C] not sick. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And the [F] days came and went, _ _ _ _ [C] they looked [F] like each [G] other. _ _
[F] I became like [G] an animal, [C] walked around in [F] my cage, and I [G] did not talk [C] to anyone.
_ _ _ _ So I grabbed the breast of _ [G] his, _ _ _ [C] and the hand of my heart [G] was cold.
_ I _ [F] lived in fear, [C] a half-year [F] stretch, and I cried [G] to sleep [C] every night. _ _ _
So I started [F] drinking [G] _
wine, _ _ [C] to _ feel _ [G] fine.
_ _ _ [F] To dare [G] to go out, [C] to not [F] stop, _ to take [G] me [C] out of apathy.
_ Because I feared _ for [G] my understanding, _ _ [C] and I just wanted [F] to [G] be in the day. _ _
_ [F] I [G] just asked [C] for a place for [F] my child, but the [G] _
curve of the day [C] was too long.
_ _ _ But I did [F] not get sick, [G] not sick. _
[C] No, I did [F] not get sick, [C] [G] not sick.
_ _ [Fm] But I became [G] so tired, [C] so terribly [F] tired.
But I did [G] not get sick, not [C] sick. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ So [F] we lived in [G] fear, _ _ _ [C] until the fourth [F] _ winter [G] became spring.
_ [F] So one [G] day I got, [C] so the [F] world stopped, _ when the [G] children's council called.
[C] _ _ It _ was they who lived [G]
next door, _ _ _ [C] who let [F] them pick [G] them up here.
_ _ [F] They arranged [G] and said [C] that it was for [F] my child, because they knew [G] despite everything that [C] we were still.
_ _ _ They took [F]
my child [G] with my wound.
_ _ _ [C]
We only had four years. _
But I [F] hoped [G] and believed [C] that when she grew up, she [G] would forgive [C] and understand. _ _ _
That I was [F] never _ [C] sick, [G] not sick.
_ [C] No, I was never sick, [G] not sick.
_ _ _ [Cm] No, [C] I was just [G] tired, _ [C] so terribly [F] tired.
But I [C] was never [G] sick, not [C] sick. _
So _ _ _ _ _ _ my _ [F] _ last [G] tears fell.
_ _ [C] Yes, I thought I was dying.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ I was [C] driving like a [G] red, [C] a whirlwind [F] from a play [G] in the [C] stormy sea.
_ _ So I looked [F] for a place to come home, _ _ [C] to a great [F] _ [G] understanding. _ _ _ _
[Fm] Here you speak [G] softly, [C] here _ [F] you soon get sick, here [G] no one believes in [C] treatment.
_ _ _ _ Here [F] you suffer in [G] anxiety, _ _ _ [C] here you drag away [G] the future.
_ _ _ [F] Here [G] everything is good, [C] here there are [F] no demands, you can sleep [G] in [C] heaven. _ _ _
And they said I was sick, [G]
yes _ _ they said I was sick, I was sick.
_ But I was just tired, [C] so terribly [F]
tired.
But they said [G] I was sick, [C] not sick. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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