Love Like Blood

John Hiatt / Riding with the King 1983

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Take it easy baby

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But take as much as you can

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Cause I got all the sweet loving

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You could possibly stand

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I'll take your tears for drinking water

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Make your pain sweet company

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You can lay all your burdens on my shoulder

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Girl you mean that much to me

chorus 1:

|1 / /

I could climb the highest mountain

4 |5 / / #5o

To show the world I could survive

|6- 5

But without your lovin' baby

|4 4/5

I wouldn't even be alive

|*

Cause your love is like blood

|*

Cause your love is like blood to me

Like a river baby

Your love is running thru me

And with ev'ry beat of our hearts

We're defying gravity

Just a little bit further on up the stream

There's a shady resting place

Where you can lose all your blues and your troubles

With just one sweet embrace

chorus 2:

Now I could do a million things

Just to prove that I'm a man

But there's only one woman

Who holds my life in her hands

Your love is like blood to me

Your love it's just like blood to me

b7 6-

I don't care what your people say

4 1

Over my dead body will they ever take you away

b& 6-

And any man cutting in on me

2- 3- 4 5

Well he just better stop cause I can't spare a drop

|*

Your love is like blood to me

Your love is like blood to me

verse rhythm and chords:

* | v + v + v + v + | v + v + v + v + |

x-------- x-- x------------ x-- x----

1 4 5 4 1

Number System: Key Scale Notes (example in key of C)

1=C 2=D 3=E 4=F 5=G 6=A 7=B 9=D ETC.

b2=Db #4=F# b7=Bb

These hold true for BASS NOTES [ 2-/5 = D-/G ]

Duration Notation:

| = bar line; within bar lines chords divide measure

No bar line = chord gets entire measure's time

/ = play same as previous chord, beat or measure

transcribed by OtMan (Otto Marten) marten@sky.net