When Love Was King

Intro: Am

      Am          C         G    
When pain didn't reign and love 
    Am
was king
          Am      F / C     G
We could wash our hands of most 
        Am
anything
    Am   C      G      Am
I inherited my fathers sin
       Am      F / C          G  
I was born and raised in the 
     Am
midst of it
           Am       C          G 
Before a preacher spoke those 
       Am
words in vain
    Am  F / C       G         Am
And holy men would bow their head
Am   F / C   G    Am
For I was a man I am
    Am     C     G    Am
The older son of Abraham

           F    G          C
The day I drowned in fire and storm
       F   G                Am
I found out, what I'd always known
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           F    G        D
I still remember, I still see
   C           F           G     
A heart that trusts and avoids 
    Am
that sadness
      Am          C         G    
When pain didn't reign and love 
    Am
was king

    Am          C         G      Am
My daddy was a gambler, drinking man
  Am       F / C          G      
Showed his love with the back of 
    Am
his hand
      Am      F / C          G   
Never saw him smile, not a 
      Am
flicker of graze
           Am               C     
I think he buried him with momma 
     G        Am
in a Tennesse clay

           F    G          C
The day I drowned in fire and storm
       F   G                Am
I found out, what I'd always known
           F    G        D
I still remember, I still see
   C           F           G     
A heart that trusts and avoids 
    Am
that sadness
      Am          C         G    
When pain didn't reign and love 
    Am
was king

           F    G          C
The day I drowned in fire and storm
       F   G                Am
I found out, what I'd always known
           F    G        D
I still remember, I still see
   C           F           G     
A heart that trusts and avoids 
    Am
that sadness
      Am          C         G    
When pain didn't reign and love 
    Am
was king
   C           F           G     
A heart that trusts and avoids 
    Am
that sadness
           Am          C         
Back when pain didn't reign and 
G        Am
love was king