Chords for Citizen Cope performs "Lifeline"

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_ _ _ [Gm] When you're so dead wrong, _ _ [F] _
you can't help [C] yourself.
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_ _ [Gm] When you're so long gone, _ _ [F] _
let alone no one [C] else.
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_ _ _ [Gm] Where the children still [F] down in the street,
_ _ _ and babies still living [C] with the sea.
_ _ [G] And the cops got guns, [F] and the poor folk got [C] sons.
We work for Mr.
Franklin every week.
_ [Gm] So if you _ come looking [F] for hard times,
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hard times ain't hard [Am] to [Gm] find.
Because _ we're giving [F] that _ lifeline
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only once in a lifetime.
_ [Gm] Baby, we were born.
_ _ [F] _ Baby, we were [C] born _ _ _ to _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ be sure _ [F] to endure when the storm [C] comes. _
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_ _ [G] Got them sad eyes, [F] got them cat eyes,
[C] got them angels so tired from saving his life.
And [Gm] I could bet to contain [F] _ yourself
_ _ _ [C] _ before you end up killed. _
_ _ [G] Yeah, his bare feet [F] touching her bare feet.
[C] The air breeze sweet near the mountain street.
[Gm] And I forgot what the [F] wise man said _ _ _ [C] _ _
about the ancient thread.
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_ [Gm] So if you _ come looking [F] for hard times,
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hard times ain't hard to find.
[Gm] Because we're _ giving [F] that _ lifeline
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only once in a lifetime.
_ [Gm] Baby, we were born.
_ _ [F] _ Baby, we were _ [C] born _ _ to _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ be sure _ _ [F] to endure when the storm [C] comes. _
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_ [Gm] Baby, we were born.
_ _ [F] _ Baby, we were _ _ born _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] to _ _ rejoice, _ [F] _ rejoice when it _ [C] succumbs. _
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