Cautious Man chords by Bruce Springsteen

Chords with lyrics

G+G              C majorC
Bill Horton was a cautious man of the road

      G+G                              D MajorD
He walked lookin' over his shoulder and remained faithful to its code

 G+G                C majorC
When something caught his eye he'd measure his need

 G+G           D MajorD       G+G
And then very carefully he'd proceed


                C majorC
Billy met a yound girl in the early days of May

     G+G                B minorBm         C majorC
It was there in her arms he let his cautiousness slip away

 G+G                 C majorC
In their lovers twilight as the evening sky grew dim

    G+G            D MajorD               G+G
He'd lay back in her arms and laugh what had happened to him

    C majorC
On his right hand Billy tatooed the word love

      B minorBm
And on his left hand was the word fear

   G+G                       D MajorD
And in which hand he held his fate was never clear

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Come Indian summer he took his young lover for his bride

     G+G                D MajorD           G+G
And with own hands built a great house down by the riverside


| G+G | C majorC | G+G | G+G | C majorC D MajorD |

   G+G             C majorC
Now Billy was an honest man he wanted to do what was right

   G+G                               D MajorD
He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nights

 G+G                    C majorC
Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray

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For he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay

      C majorC                  B minorBm
One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream callin' his wife's name

      G+G                             D MajorD
She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles away

 G+G                   C majorC
He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode

     G+G         D MajorD            G+G
When he got there he didn't find nothing but road


| G+G | C majorC | C majorC | Bm7Bm7 | Bm7Bm7

        G+G              C majorC
Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn't name

       G+G                    B minorBm          C majorC
Just as the words tattooed 'cross his knuckles he knew would always remain

      G+G
At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife's face

     C majorC
 as the moon shone on her skin so white

        G+G           D MajorD         G+G
Filling their room with the beauty of God's fallen light


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