If He Came Back Again chords by The Highwaymen

Tuning: EADGBE

If He Came Back Again
The Highwayman

Intro:
D A D A D

Verse:
D
You'd have thought a king had died,

The way those people cried
 G               D
Instead of one more broken entertainer
D

It struck those in his trade

He could have had it made
G              D
If he'd only been a little saner
A
 They traveled far to see him
     D       G
Oh, the humble and the high
   D       Bm      F#m  G
They said goodbye as if he were a friend

   A
Now somewhere he is smiling
   D      G
On those who idolized him
   D        Bm    A
But would they even recognize him
         D
If he came back again?

D
He was born of modest means

But had outrageous dreams
 G
They never let him rest
      D
Till he fulfilled them
While he rode that train of song
His devils tagged along
   G
The whiskey and the pills
        D
Just couldn't kill him
      A
He didn't mean to be a rebel
     D       G
Ah, the real ones never do
     D        Bm   F#m G
They're born apart from ordinary men

   A
And somewhere he is smiling
   D      G
On those who sanctified him
   A        Bm   A
But would they even recognize him
         D
If he came back again?

     A
It's an old familiar story
       D         G
But it's a damn shame none the less
   Bm
They don't forgive his kind
      G        A
Till they lay them down to rest

A
And somewhere he is smiling
   D      G
On those who idolized him
   A        Bm    A
But would they even recognize him
         D
If he came back again?

D
Oh, if he came back again