The Fool I Am chords by Michael Claytor

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
C/EC/E F#F#  G+G                           C majorC
I've spent five years in prison and you seldom even visit but you do
  G+G                             C majorC
You tell me you don't care, the lipstick that you wear tells me you do
  G+G                            C majorC
The papers you wont sign, the empty dotted line, they're the reason you wont say we're through
   G+G                             C majorC
Cause deep inside you're mine, if you dig you're gonna find that all I did I did for you
C majorC               G+G
Wait and see I'm holdin' on for you
  C majorC                     G+G
Be five more years and I'll take you somewhere new
                 G7G7
And if you change your heart and find another
   C majorC             C#m7-5
I will bend these bars to get to you my lover
     G+G         D MajorD       C majorC  G+G C/GC/G G+G
It takes a fool to do but a fool I am for you

Verse 2:
 G+G                              C majorC
A augmentedA fool you called it rightly, prison suits you nicely, yes it's true
   G+G                             C majorC
It's not the ring I care for, it's just to have you there for me, it's true
   G+G
They caught you stealin' jewelry, thought that you could fool me
  C majorC
you thought you fooled me last time too
 G+G                          C majorC
Three repeat offenses, ten years on your sentence I'll see you when a decade's through
C majorC                 G+G
Fine by me but I'm holdin' out for you
C majorC                     G+G
Five years here and I'm bound for somewhere new
                  G7G7
And if I steal away and they should catch me runnin'
    C majorC              C#m7-5
I would sorely hope that you would be there gunnin'
     G+G         D MajorD       C majorC  G+G C/GC/G G+G
It takes a fool to do but a fool I am for you

Instrumental:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC (boom-chuck on root and fifth)

Verse 3:
   G+G                                C majorC
Five years left on my sentence and I felt I'd served my penance so I tunneled my way through the wall
  G+G                                C majorC
You showed up lookin' dirty, I said "You're five years early, it's dinner time, you should have called."
  G+G                        C majorC
My chariot's a Pinto, ignore the broken window and then the pistol, baby doll.
   G+G                       C majorC
"You must be crazy, prison's made you lazy cause a pistol cant do nothin' at all."
C majorC                 G+G
Take my hand I'm still in love with you
   C majorC                      G+G
With five years there and I'll take you somewhere new
                G7G7
And if we burn the bridge over troubled water
    C majorC               C#m7-5
I would steal the change it takes to call your father(mother)
     G+G         D MajorD       C majorC  G+G C/GC/G G+G
It takes a fool to do but a fool I am for you
     G+G         D MajorD       C majorC  G+G C/GC/G G+G D/F#D/F# G+G