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Long Live The King by Margo Price

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♫ Intro: 

   F   B F  F B F  F B F  B F
E ---0------------------------
B -2---0----2-0----2-0----3---
G -------2------2------2----2-
D ----------------------------
A ----------------------------
E ----------------------------


♫ Verse:
 F
Elvis sang Willie Nelson
        B           B
On the day that he died
F
"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
Gm
 With the pain inside

    F                     B
He took his pills and he went to bed
F                         B
 Heart attack's what the paper said
    C#m       C         F        G                B   B  B
But what I'd give just one more time to hear him sing

♫ Chorus: 
F                 B         F
 But the King is dead (Ooh-ooh)
           B         F
He's long gone (Ooh-ooh)
      F        B        F
Long live the Kiiiiiiing

      F B F  F B B F
E -------------------
B ----2-0------------
G --------2----2-4-2-
D -----------4-------
A -------------------
E -------------------


♫ Verse:
F
MLK was a Christian
          B                B
He loved Ghandi, he loved girls
F
 Grew up in segregation
Gm
  But he saw another world

    F                    B
He marched and sang and stood for the poor
        F                   B
He was for the fight, but against the war

          C#m      C        F            G         B
But they murdered him like Christ 'cause he had a dream


♫ Chorus: 
F                 B             F
 But the King is dead (King is dead)
           B          F
He's long gone (long gone)
      F        B
Long live the Kiiiiiiing


Instrumental/♫ Solo: 
F    B
F    B
C#m  Fm  F  B#m  B    B


♫ Verse:
 F
They gunned down John Lennon
      B           B          F
On a cold winter night (Ooh-ooh)

Outside of the Dakota
Gm
 In the middle of his prime

      F                B
They put him down for speaking the truth
          F               B
He was a feminist and an asshole too

C#m           Fm                F     G        B                  F
  But in the end, he risked it all for love and peace, yeah ah ah ah


♫ Outro: 
             B             F
The King is dead (King is dead)
           B          F
He's long gone (long gone)
      F        B       F
Long live the Kiiiiiiiing

      F    B           F
Long live the Kiiiiiing