Bread For The Body chords by Kris Kristofferson

Chords with lyrics

Bread for the Body
From the album Feeling Mortal

[INTRO]

A augmentedA G+G x3

A augmentedA

[VERSE]

  A augmentedA             G+G      A augmentedA
I built my own chains in the land of the free
               BB     E MajorE
A augmentedA slave to a job that meant nothing to me
       A augmentedA           G+G     A augmentedA
With three shiny new cars and a split level home
              G+G    A augmentedA
To furnish the tomb I was dying to own

   D MajorD
Then one day I wakened with fear in my eye
 A augmentedA                  E MajorE
Aware of a world that was passing me by
    A augmentedA           G+G     A augmentedA
And I knew that my savings of silver and gold
                G+G    A augmentedA
Would mean not a thing when my body was cold

[CHORUS]

     A augmentedA           D MajorD    A augmentedA
Because life is a song for the dying to sing
               BB    E MajorE
It's got to have feeling to mean anything
    A augmentedA           D MajorD     A augmentedA
And a man can get by without silver or gold
               G+G      A augmentedA
With bread for the body and song for the soul

[INTERLUDE]

A augmentedA G+G x3

[VERSE]

   A augmentedA           G+G       A augmentedA
I'm living my life by the lessons I've learned
               BB      E MajorE
And not looking back at the bridges I've burned
      A augmentedA             G+G     A augmentedA
'Cause the time that we travel from cradle to grave
                G+G     A augmentedA
Was meant to be spent and not meant to be saved

    D MajorD
And I know there are some who will say I'm a fool
    A augmentedA                   E MajorE
But I don't give a damn for the people that do
      A augmentedA           G+G      A augmentedA
'Cause if down in a dungeon is where they belong
                  G+G     A augmentedA
Well, that's their misfortune and none of my own

[CHORUS]

     A augmentedA           D MajorD    A augmentedA
Because life is a song for the dying to sing
               BB    E MajorE
It's got to have feeling to mean anything
    A augmentedA           D MajorD     A augmentedA
And a man can get by without silver or gold
               G+G      A augmentedA
With bread for the body and song for the soul

[OUTRO]

A augmentedA G+G x7