Iris DeMent - The Way I Should

      
 
 The Way I Should - Written by Iris DeMent
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 Capo 4th Fret
 
 (Intro)
 
 C D G G C D G G 
         
 G                               D                               G    
 A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night
    Em                                        
 An autumn leaf was scr*ping against my window
                                  G   
 Like it was tryin' hard to get inside
            C                              D                   
 And then a ghost that I had met before he kept me up till dawn
     G                                  C                 
 And everything I thought was right was suddenly all wrong
               D                           
 He said "your score is looking pretty bad"
                                            G   
 Then he asked me what it was that I had to show
 
 G                                      
 So I went runnin' down a list of things
 D                                     G   
 Some were real, but on some of them I lied
          Em                                    
 'Cause I felt I had to justify each breath that
                           G    
 I'd been breathin' in this life
        C                           D                   
 Then I realized I was playing into someone else's rules
 G                               C                    
 Tryin' to keep my score up in a game I did not choose
        D                                             
 Then I looked that ghost straight in the eye and said
                                     G     
 "You'd better not be coming back by again"
 
 G                          C                
 And it's true that I don't work near as hard
        D                           
 As you tell me that I'm supposed to
 G                         C    
  I don't run as fast as I could
                           D      
 But I live just the way I want to
                      G     
 And that's the way I should
 
 (Instrumental)
 
 C D G C C D G G 
         
 
 G                                   
 October's leaves were dancin' 'round
      D                                  G   
 Like angels dressed in robes of red and gold
     Em                          
 But November's come and gone now
                                               G   
 And they're lyin' in the gutter out along the road
               C                                  D                 
 They're gonna make their way out to the ditch or someday to the sea
             G                                      C                
 But they'll get to where they're goin' without the help of you or me
             D                           
 And if each life is just a grain of sand
                                            G   
 I'm tellin' you man, this grain of sand is mine
 
 G                          C                
 And it's true that I don't work near as hard
        D                           
 As you tell me that I'm supposed to
 G                         C    
  I don't run as fast as I could
                           D      
 But I live just the way I want to
                      G     
 And that's the way I should
     C                     D      
 But I live just the way I want to
                      G     
 And that's the way I should
 
 (Outro. Repeat To Fade)
 
 C D G G 
     
 
 Chords:
 C = X32010
 D = XX0232
 Em = 022000
 G = 320033