Chords for Joe Henry - King's Highway

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_ [G] I might just [Em] change my mind _
[G] Sometimes you can [Em] never tell
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Where a story [Em] will unwind [G] _ How deep [B] is a [Em] shallow well
_ _ [C] Sometimes [Am] you would never guess _ _ [Em] Who's out talking, who [C] just might
_ _ [G] Find a way or [D] lose themselves On [Am] the king's [Em] highway tonight
I [G] _ am just [Em] like many more _ _ [G]
Who lie in bed [Em] still and numb
_ [G] Awake enough that [Em] I can see [G] Just how [B] dark it [Em] has become
Who [C] knows no better [Am] angels now [Em] Who've known none but an [C] earthly light _
_ _ [G] Who'd wait in [D] for a [A] stranger _ On king's highway tonight
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] Wasn't how I [Em] had it planned _ _ [G] When it [D] finally [Em] came around
_ [G] I took a man with [Em] my own hands [G] But I held him close when he [Em] went down _
_ [C] He hadn't time [Am] to be _ afraid [Em] His look was only [C] a surprise
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Staring up from [D] where he lay _ [Am] On the [C] king's [Em] highway tonight
I _ [G] took the little [Em] that he had _ _ [G] Only as an [Em]
afterthought
_ [G] He wouldn't have to [Em] feel so bad [G] To think I killed him [Em] just at all _
[C] He was passing [Am] through this town _ [Em]
All it caused [C] was he looked about right
_ _ [G] He stopped when I [D] flagged him down _ [Am] On the [Em] king's highway tonight _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] I might [Em] just change my mind [G] Sometimes you [B] can never [Em] tell _ _ _ _
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