Iron & Wine - History Of Lovers

      Note: Album version from 2005's In the Reins is in drop-D tuning, DADGBe.

Chord shapes:

         D                 G                 A
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A|--0-0-2-0-0-2-0--|--5-5-7-5-5-7-5--|--7-7-9-7-7-9-7--|
D|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|


[Intro]
D G D A
D G D A D

[Verse One]
D                       G
Louise only got from me innocent poetry
D                          A
Although she played to not listen
D                           G
But still I can hear myself speak as if no one else
D          A         D
Ever could offer the same
D                      G
Some say she knowingly tastes like a recipe
D                       A
Although so foolish and willing
D                               G
I said Babe, "I can picture you bend as if wanting to
D          A            D
Bow as the curtain goes down"

[Chorus]
G                            D
Coddle some men, they'll remember you bitterly
G                               A
Fuck 'em, they'll come back for more
G                           D
I asked my Louise would she leave and so, cripple me
G                        A
Then came a knock at the door

[Verse Two]
D                       G
I came for my woman, he came with a razor blade
D                         A
Bound like us all for the ocean
  D                          G
I hope that she's happy, I'm blamed for the death
     D             A             D
Of a man who would take her from me

[Solo]
G  D
G  A
G  D
G  A

[Verse Three]
D                   G
Some they saw in me innocent poetry
D                           A
Some, some they'll never be certain
D                              G
But still it's been written, a history of lovers
   D           A           D
In giving, and taking, and ink

[Chorus]
G                        D
Coddle some men, they'll remember you fittingly
G                              A
Cut ‘em, they'll come back for more
G                            D
I asked my Louise, would she leave and so, cripple me
G                          A
Then came the knock at the door

[Verse Four]
D                         G
Louise came to rescue me, missing, the irony
D                               A
Blood made her heart change its beating
D                           G
I hope that she's happy I'm blamed for the death of
    D             A           D
The man she found better than me

[Outro Solo]
G  D
G  A
G  D
G  A  D