A Love You Can't Survive chords by Richard Thompson

Chords with lyrics

A minorAm         FF
Now I remember the promise I gave you
  C majorC            DmDm
The night I shipped out as a peace volunteer
   A minorAm            FF
As we sat holding hands in the Lamb and Flag tavern
 C majorC             DmDm
I swore I’d be back for you same time next year

But I killed a man in a Brazzaville street fight
I tried to hold back, but he taunted me so
5 years till they freed me from that Brazzaville prison
Out of boredom or pity, I never will know

Chorus:
  FF			  G+G
Now I bear the stain, the scar on my name
   D MajorD   FF      G+G E minorEm
And I never can go back again
A minorAm    DmDm    G+G       A minorAm    DmDm    G+G
There’s a love you can’t survive, there’s a love you can’t survive
FF           G+G   FF         G+G     E minorEm A minorAm
And it tears you up inside, there’s a love you can’t survive

I sailed my boat into New Orleans harbour
Tied up at the jetty, as bold as you please
With a half-ton of charlie built in to the bulkhead
Right under the noses of all them police

Now here I sit in my house on the mountain
I’m King of the clouds and all I survey
There’s women who are willing, and the law can’t touch me
But yours is the one face that won’t go away

Chorus



by: José Duarte