Chords for Foy Vance - I Was Born (Live from Layman Drug Company)

[Bb] _ [Cm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ was born _ _ a bell of _ _ angels by the _ _ sea in the [Bb] year _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Eb] 1974,
_ I was born _ _
_ _ [Gm] a child [Ab] for Christmas _ _ to _ [Eb] my [Ab] father, he [Eb] and mother _ and a gene. _
_ For a while I walked [Ab] _
_ in the [Eb] ways of _ Jesus,
_ served me _ [Ab] with the _ [Bb] fast saints, [Ab] _
_ _ [Eb] come to fight _ [Gm] _
_ us, [Ab] doesn't need us _ to [Eb] be [Ab] any more than [Eb] we [Bb] need [Eb] him to be. _
_ _ I've heard stories _ _ like they know about heaven, _ _ and I can't _ _ _ help but [Bb] see the saints. _
[Ab] We _ [Eb] could pull our thread [Gm] and make two _ [Ab] cloths to clean us, _ _ so [Eb] that [Ab] _ _
[Eb] _ [Bb] I'll [Eb] tell to [Ab] thee.
[Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] I was born in the bell of [Ab] angels _ _ [Eb] by the _ sea _ in the year [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] 1974,
_ I was born _
[Gm] _ _ a [Ab] child for Christmas _
[Abm] to _ [Eb] my father, [Ab] he [Eb] and [Bb] mother [Eb] and a _ gene.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Yet I was at war _ [Ab] _
with that [Eb] wild religion, _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Eb] it revealed _ _ [Ab] _
_ itself [Bb] to me.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ [Eb] Sloppy soul _ [Gm]
for some [Ab] good decisions, _ [Abm] _
_ [Ab] give me [Eb] ears [Ab] to hear [Eb] and eyes [Bb] my wits [Eb] to see. _ _
_ I have heard so all _ about hell beneath us, _ the fires _ _ burn _ for [Bb] eternity.
_ _ _ [Ab] _
But [Eb] we're all just a [Gm] house for the _ [Ab] wind and sea, _ so _ _ _ [Eb] that [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
[Bb] I'll [Eb] tell to thee. _ _ _
I [F] was born _ in the bell of _ angels _ by the _ _ sea in the year [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ 1974,
I was born _ _ a child [Bb] for Christmas _ _ to [F] my father, [Bb] he [F] and mother [C] _
[F] and a gene. _ _ _ _
To my father, [Bb] he [F] and _ [C] _
[F] mother and a gene. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _