Chords for Van Morrison, Taj Mahal - How Can A Poor Boy? (Audio)

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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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I _ [Gm] was a shepherd of men. _
I chased the wild goose.
Chased the powder girls.
That's right.
[G] Chased the _ rainbow's kin.
[Bb]
I killed the black sheep.
I [C] can't help but _ _ [Gm] give this message to you.
Well, well, _ _ [C] I can't help but.
_ Yeah, yeah, [Gm] yeah.
You don't believe anything that's true.
_ _ [D] _ _ [Bb] _
[Gm] _ _ Here's my rise.
_ Here's my downfall.
Now I'm gonna rise up again. _
You know I had my degrees.
Yes.
[F] Had [G] my initiation.
That's right.
Sure.
[Bb] Not speaking [G] to the [Bb] profane.
I [C] can't help but.
_ _ Well, give [Gm] this message to you.
Well, _ well, [G]
I can't help [C] but.
_ _ _ [Gm] You don't want to believe anything [D] that's true. _ _ _ _
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[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Gm] I've been anointed. _ _
I've been appointed.
_ Even been _ magnified.
Well, you know I spy the [G] chapel.
That's right.
[Gm] All of gold.
The priest was laid down with the spy. _
I [C] got a bad boy.
I got a poor boy.
Give [Gm] this message.
Give this message to you.
That's right. _ _
I [G] [C] got a poor boy.
_ When you don't believe [Bb] anything that's true for you.
_ [Gm] _
_ Yeah, yeah. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Watch the illusion.
_ False [G] security.
_ Play of the shadows.
That move.
[Gm] _
_ _ Tell me what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
Well, _ only the shadow knows.
How [G] can I [C] love more? _ _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ You.
_ Message to you.
[G] _ [C] _ Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't believe anything [Gm] that's true for you.
No, no, no, no, no, [Bb] no.
[G] I've got [C] a poor boy.
_ _ Get it through.
Get it [E] through to [Gm] you.
No, no, no, no, no, no, [Bb] no.
No, [G] no, no, [C] no, no, [C] no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Come on, come [Gm] on, message to you.
Yeah.
[G] Yeah.
I said, I said, I'll [C] come upon more.
_ _ I'll come upon more.
Yeah, we'll get through [Gm] to you.
Yeah, yeah.
One more time.
How [G] can [C] a poor boy _ _ ever get [B] through to [Gm] you?
Get through to you.
Get through to you.
[C] Oh, [G] yeah, yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ I'm a poor boy. _ _ _ _
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