Gov’t Mule - In My Life

by Govt Mule
transcribed by Seth Brewster and Peter Riedman

**Open G Tuning - Low to High (DGDGBD)**
***There is a bunch of slide fills in this song you can just play around with***

(h)= hammer on/off
() around a # = harmonics
/ = slide

intro
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(verse)

I can't save you

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but I can talk you down

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I will hold you

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but I won't watch you drown

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(chorus)


In my life

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Things have a way of growing downward

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And I don't know if I can watch myself be a coward

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Again

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(verse)


I don't know you

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like I thought I did

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But I will show you

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things that I kept hid

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(Chorus)

In my life

I've always been the one that had to ruin things

So I don't know is some dark angel pulling on my heart strings

Again


solo(mainly with slide)

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(verse)

People change

I don't know what for

Strangers walking in and out my door

Something's got to change
The past just hangs here to remind me
That one of these mornings
I'll reach for you and find me

(verse)

I have told you

I won't watch you drown

I can't save you

but I will be around

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