I saw you tonight
in the room where love had started once before
and we open up the skies
with your loving eyes
you take me back where you belong in my heart
(One love frozen in time.)

(Never be a bad love.)
(Yours and mine.)
But I still remain
and I will never change

CHUROS
I will always love you
I will always take your part
and all the years of losing you and then
being close to you again
the very chance that I could take your heart
your hand in mine
(You are inside me)
one more time
(don’t you remember me)
and the days that lie ahead
Am D(fading tune)
they all go wrong

VERSE:
but tonight my love
there’s no question in my mind where we shoud be
and it’s clear that you’re alone and I’m alone
and all the fools have gone
you open up so tears can fall from your eyes
(true love can never be die)
(we can make it one day, if we try)
Be there sunshine or rain

and I will never change

CHUROS:

I will always love you
I will always take your part
and all the years of losing you and then
being close to you again
the very chance that I could take your heart
your hand in mine

Grady Johnson was a common man
Four children and some bottom land
Early to bed he said well that ain’t me
I gotta spend some time with my family

Left to it’s own device May becomes June
But children grow up way too soon

So love your neighbor as yourself
Don’t use money to measure wealth
Trust in God but lock your door
Buy low sell high and slow dance more

Mama Johnson was Grady's wife
She bore his children and she graced his life
Hand in hand and side by side
They worked hard to simplify

Some folks have and some have not
What really counts is what you do with what you’ve got

So love your neighbor as yourself
Don’t use money to measure wealth
Trust in God but lock your door
Buy low sell high and slow dance more

And more I think I understand
What my father’s father meant
When he said son what matters most
You can count on just one hand

So love your neighbor as yourself
Don’t use money to measure wealth
Trust in God but lock your door
Buy low sell high and slow dance more

Buy low sell high and slow dance more

(Intro)
[G/B]
(Verse)
Every now and then
When the world steps in
Stealing all our time a way
It soon takes so much
We for get to touch
That’s when I know
It’s time for me to say

Take my hand
Let’s walk through love’s door
And be free from the world once more
Here’s my heart
We can hide today
And love the world a way

(Instrumental)
[G/B]
(Verse)
Once a gain we’ll be
Where our hearts are free
And the time is ours to share
Love will always stay
Just a touch a way
Come with me
All the magic’s waiting there

Take my hand
Let’s walk through love’s door
And be free from the world once more
Here’s my heart
We can hide today

(Outro)
And love the world a way
And love the world a way

keep living your life in the dark, sooner or later that gentle persuader

is gonna catch up with your heart,
make you a dreamer, believer, believer in love

Right when a man’s doing all that he planned

and he thinks he’s got just what he needs

life will deliver a shock that will shiver him

driving him down to his knees
make him start giving, living, living again

(Chorus)

Well it’s your mind that tricks you into leaving every time
love will turn you around, turn you around
It’s your heart, that talks you into staying where you are
love will turn you around, turn you around

Out of the blue she reaches for you

and you tell her you don’t have the time,

so you move away fast, but you know it won’t last

cause you can’t get her off of your mind,
thoughts are burning, turning, turning around

How do you know when to stay or to go

and how do you know when it’s real,

you don’t need a sign to make up your mind

you’ve got your heart at the wheel,
you want to start sharing, caring, caring again

(Chorus)

Well it’s your mind that tricks you into leaving every time
love will turn you around, turn you around
It’s your heart, that talks you into staying where you are
love will turn you around, turn you around
love will turn you around, turn you around
love will turn you around, turn you around
turn you around

Take a gown out of the closet
Put it on, that?s why I bought it
Come stand in front of me and let me see
Take the warm smile that you?re wearing
Place it on these lips that?s burning
To share this fire you?ve built inside of me
Turn the light down in the bedroom
Pull the sheet down from the pillow
When we?re like this, love?s easily understood

Chorus:
Let?s walk through this house we live in
To the room we always love in
And let?s love each other while the feeling?s good

Change key to A:

With all my will I promise
With all of me I love you
This feeling that I?ve got just grows and grows
I can?t stop this wanting you
And I can?t stop my needing you
No more than I can stop the wind that blows
Ah, but I?ll hold your sweet lovin,
Long as we both have this feeling
I?ll love you everyway I know that?s good

Chorus

C (muted)
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin’ for the trains
Feelin’ nearly faded as my jeans

Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained
Took us all the way to New Orleans

I took my mouth harp out of my old dirty red bandana
I was playin’ sad while Bobby sang the blues
Those windshield wipers slappin’ time and Bobby’s clappin’ hands we finally
Sang up every song that driver knew, whoa

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free, whoa
Feelin’ good was easy Lord when Bobby sang the blues
G N/C
Feelin’ good was good enough for me, Bobby McGee

(Key change)

D (muted)
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul

Standin’ right beside me Lord thru everything I done
And every night she kept me from the cold
Then somewhere near Salinas Lord I let her slip away
Lookin’ for the home I hope she’ll find
I’d trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine, whoa

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’ left is all she left for me, whoa
Feelin’ good was easy Lord when Bobby sang the blues
A N/C Dsus2
Feelin’ good was good enough for me, Bobby McGee, whoa

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free, whoa
Feelin’ good was easy Lord when Bobby sang the blues
A N/C
Feelin’ good was good enough for me, Bobby McGee

Chord voicings I use:

[C/E] [G/F][G/B]

e--0----0----3----1----0---1----0------0-----0----0----------0--------0--|
B--1----3----0----1----0---1----1------3-----2----1-----3----1---3----1--|
G--2----2----0----2----0---2----0------2-----2----2-----0----0---0----0--|
D--2----0----0----0----2---3----2------2-----2----3-----0----2---0----2--|
A--0---------x---------2---3----3------0-----0----x-----x----3---2----0--|
E------------3---------0---1----0-----------------1-----1----------------|

If you wanna get really fancy, the capo makes it easy to emulate the verse vocal/piano part fingerstyle
while still keeping the bass notes of the chords like this:

e------0----------------------------------------|
B-----1------------0---1-------------0---1------|
G----2---------2-----------------2--------------|
D---2----2---2---2---2---2-----2---2---2---2----|
A--0-------------------------0------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------|

e--0----------------0---0---------------------------------0--------|
B---------0---1----------------3---3---1----0--1----3--1-----------|
G-----2------------------------------------------------------------| as an example
D-------2---2----2------0-------------------------------------2----|
A--0------------------------------------------------------0--------|
E-------------------------------------------3----------------------|

La-dy I’m your knight in shi-ning ar-mor and I love you…

Verse:

Lady, I’m your knight in shining armor and I love you

You have made me what I am and I am yours

My love, there’s so many ways I want to say I love you

Let me hold you in my arms forever more

Pre-Chorus:

You have gone and made me such a fool

I’m so [C/E]lost in your love

And oh, we belong together

Won’t you [C/E]believe in my song

Verse:

Lady, for so many years I thought I’d never find you

You have come into my life and made me whole

Forever let me wake to see you each and every morning

Let me hear you whisper softly in my ear

Pre-Chorus:

In my eyes I see no one else but you

There’s no [C/E]other love like our love

And yes, oh yes, I’ll always want you near me

I’ve waited for [C/E]you for so long

Chorus:

Lady, [G/F] your love’s the only [G/B]love I need

And beside me [G/F] is where I want you to [G/B]be

‘Cause, my love,[G/F] there’s somethin’ I want [G/B]you to know

You’re the love [C/E]of my life, you’re my lady

[-] [-] [-]

You want things your way, and I want them mine
And now we dont know where to draw the line
How long can love survive if we keep choosing sides
And who picks up the pieces every time two fools collide

You lay the blame on me, I lay the blame on you
But why do we keep finding fault with everything we do
How long can we keep right and wrong so cut and dried
And who picks up the pieces every time two fools collide

We can save our love, we still have the time

Oh I know there must be a way that we just havent tried
To keep our hearts from breaking every time two fools collide
To keep our hearts from breaking
Every time two fools collide.

(Thanks to Peter Styles for tabs)

I haven’t found it yet
If I could love you for eternity, I would
But I regret
I’ve only got one life; I’ve only got one life
An’ one lifetime’s just not long enough to live
I’ve only got one heart; I’ve only got one heart
And I wish I had a hundred more to give
Girl, there’s so little time and so much I want to do
But I’ve only got one life to love someone like you.

Can’t take my eyes off you, I’m afraid of what I’ll miss

It goes by so fast
So I’ll treat each moment that I’ve been blessed, with you
Like it’s the last.

I’ve only got one life; I’ve only got one life
An’ one lifetime’s just not long enough to live
I’ve only got one heart; I’ve only got one heart
And I wish I had a hundred more to give
Girl, there’s so little time and so much I want to do
But I’ve only got one life to love someone like you.

And I’ve only got one life and I give it all to you…