Tom: A
Introdução:
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(a second guitar plays a E chord under)
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E D E
1.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
2.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
E D E
1.On the canals and the rivers free no hasty words are spoken
* if the roads was not for me then I would chose another
Bm A
1.My only law is the river breeze that takes me to the open seas
* and the valleys deep where I would take this weary feet
E D E
1.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a boatman
2.If I could chose the life I please then I would be a rover
Bm A Bm A
* these things are so hard for me I cannot chose my own destiny-
Bm A E
And all things that I want to see are so unclean
RIFF
Bm A Bm A
3.I know some day I will be everything that I dreamed I'd be
E D E
And when I've lived the life I please then I will be a free man
Intro