Chords for The Steeldrivers - If It Hadn't Been For Love (Lyrics)

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[E] Never would [A] have hitchhiked to Birmingham if it hadn't been for love.
[Em] _ [Am] Never would have called the train to Louisiana [F] if it hadn't been for love.
[Am] Never would have run through the blinding rain [F] without one dollar to my name
if it hadn't been, [Em] if it hadn't been [Am] for love.
_ _ Never would have seen the trouble that I'm in if it hadn't been [Em] for love.
Would [Am] have been gone like a wayward wind [F] if it hadn't been for love.
[A] [Am] Nobody knows it better than [Em] me.
[F] I wouldn't be wishing I was free if it hadn't been, [Em] if it hadn't been for [Am] love.
_ [Em] _ [C] _ Fuck [G] old walls [C] against my will.
At [G] least I know [Dm] she's [Em] alive [Am] and still. _
[C] _ Fuck [G] old walls [Am] without parole.
_ Lord have [G] [Dm] mercy on [Am] my soul. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Never would have gone to that side of town if it hadn't been for love.
Never would have took [F] a mind to track her down if it hadn't been for love.
[C] Never would have loaded up a .44,
[F] put myself behind a jailhouse door if it hadn't been, [E] if it hadn't been [G] for [Am] love.
_ [C] _ _ [G] Fuck old walls [C] against my will.
At least [G] I know [Dm] she's alive [Am] and still. _ _
Fuck [G] old walls [Am] without _ [C] parole. _
[G] Lord have [Dm] mercy on [Am] my soul.
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Never would have hitchhiked to Birmingham if it hadn't been [D] for love.
[Am] _ Never would have called the train to Louisiana [F] if it hadn't been for love.
[Am] Never would have loaded up a [C] .44,
[F] put myself behind a jailhouse door if it hadn't [Em] been, if it hadn't been for love.
[Am] _ _ [C] [F] If it hadn't [E] been, if it hadn't been for [C] love.
_ _ [Am] [F] If it hadn't been, [E] if it hadn't been _ for love.
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