When Love Was King

Intro: Am

      Am          C         G        Am
When pain didn't reign and love was king
          Am      F / C     G        Am
We could wash our hands of most anything
    Am   C      G      Am
I inherited my fathers sin
       Am      F / C          G       Am
I was born and raised in the midst of it
           Am       C          G        Am
Before a preacher spoke those 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
           F    G        D
I still remember, I still see
   C           F           G         Am
A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness
      Am          C         G        Am
When pain didn't reign and love was king

    Am          C         G      Am
My daddy was a gambler, drinking man
  Am       F / C          G          Am
Showed his love with the back of his hand
      Am      F / C          G         Am
Never saw him smile, not a flicker of graze
           Am               C          G        Am
I think he buried him with momma 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         Am
A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness
      Am          C         G        Am
When pain didn't reign and love 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         Am
A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness
      Am          C         G        Am
When pain didn't reign and love was king
   C           F           G         Am
A heart that trusts and avoids that sadness
           Am          C         G        Am
Back when pain didn't reign and love was king