Chords for Joe Simon - THE CHOKIN' KIND

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_ [Ab] _ [Bbm] _ _ [Fm] [Ab] I only meant to love you, didn't [Bbm] you know [F] it baby, [Bb] _
didn't you [Ab] know it?
_ [Db] Why couldn't you be [Eb] content with the [Ab] love I gave? _
Oh yeah, I gave you my heart, _ _ but you wanted my [Bbm] mind. _
Oh yeah, _ [Db] your love scared [Eb] me to death girl, oh it's [Ab] a choking kind.
That's all it is, you can't kill a man with _ a bottle of [Bbm] poison or a knife.
I know you _ can't bear to [Db] hurt him more, to [Eb] take his pride and [Ab] run his life.
Oh it's a shame girl, _ whatever it is girl, _ _ I surely [Bbm] hope you'll find. _
Oh yeah, I [Db] figure that hat don't fit [Eb] my head.
Oh it's [Ab] a choking kind, oh yeah, it makes me wanna hmm, _ hmm, [Db] hmm.
[Bm] _ [Bb] Oh [Eb] yeah, oh [Bb] listen to [Eb] me, [Bb] when you fall in love [A] again [Bb] girl, _ [Cm] take a tip from me.
Oh yeah, _ [Eb] if you don't [F] like the peach, walk [Bb] on by the tree.
That's what you better [Eb] do honey, _ [Gm] [Bb] find what you want girl.
_ Keep it, [Gm] treat it [Cm] sweet and kind.
Oh yeah, _ [Eb] oh let it breathe.
_ [F] Oh, think it's a [Bb] choking kind. _
Oh no, _ don't break your heart baby. _
Oh no, [Eb] [Bb] I know you love me, [Eb]
[Bb] really I do honey.
Oh yeah, I tell you girl, [Eb] still [Bb] a bit of [C] death girl.
It's [Bb] a choking kind, that's all it is, I gotta say it again, it's that old one.
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