The Way I Should Chords by Iris Dement

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A cold wind against my [F#] shoulder, woke me up in the middle [B] of the night. _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] An autumn leaf was scraping against my window like it was trying hard to [B] get inside. _ _ _ _ _
[E] A man of ghosts that _ [F#] are, he kept me up till dawn.
[B] And everything I thought [E] was suddenly all wrong.
[F#] He said your scores are looking pretty bad.
And then he asked me what it was that I [B] had to show.
_ _ _ _ I went running down this [F#] thing, somewhere a real bad on, some of [B] them I've lost. _ _ _ _ _
[G#m] I felt I had to justify each breath that I've been breathing [B] in this life. _ _ _ _
[E] And I realized I was playing [F#] it in someone else's rules.
[B] Trying to keep my score up in a game I did not choose.
[F#] And I looked at those straight in the eyes, said you had better not be coming back [B] by again.
And _ it's true [E] that I work near as hard [F#] as you tell me that I'm supposed to.
[B] I don't run as [F#] fast as I could.
But I live just the way I want to.
And that's the [B] way I should. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well October's leaves were dancing [F#] round like angels dressed in robes [B] of red and gold. _ _ _ _
[G#m] But November's come and gone now and they're lying in a gutter of [B] long robes. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] They're gonna make their way out to the [F#] dedge or someday to the sea.
[B] They'll get to where they're going [E] without the help of you or me.
And if [F#] each life was just a grain of sand, I'm telling you man, this grain of [B] sand is mine.
_ _ _ And it's true that [E] I work near as hard [F#] as you tell me that I'm supposed to.
[B] I don't run as fast [E] as I could.
But I live just the way [F#] I want to.
And that's the [B] way I should. _ _ _ _ _
[E] But I live just the way [F#] I want to.
And that's the way [B] I should.
And that's the way I should. _ _ _ _ _ _
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