Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 I was tired o' being drunk

 My face cracked like a joke

 So I swung through here like a brace of jackrabbits

 With their necks all broke

 I stumbled at the door with my boot

 And I knocked against the jamb

 And I scrabbled at your chest like a mute

 With my fists of ham

( )

Trying to tell you that I am

Telling you I can

[G/f#]

I can love you again

 Love you again

 I'm squinting towards the East

 My faith makes me a dope

 But you can take my hand in the darkness, darling

 Like a length of rope

 I shaped up overnight, you know

 The day after she died

 When I saw my heart, and I tell you, darling

 It was open wide

( )

Trying to tell you that I am

Telling you I can

[G/f#]

I can love you again

 Love you again

 And it can have no bounds, you know

It can have no end

 But you can take my hand in the darkness, darling

 When you need a friend

 And it can change in shape and form

 But never change in size

 Well, the water, it runs deep, my darling

 Where it don't run wide

 The feather of a hawk was bound

 Bound around my neck

 A poultice made of fig

 The eager little vultures peck

 And the verse I read in jest

 And Matthew spoke to me

 Said, there's a flame that moves like a low-down pest

 That says, "you will be free"

( )

Trying to tell you that I am

Telling you I can

[G/f#]

I can love you again

 Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you again

Love you