Cautious Man chords by
Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph
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Key: F major
Verse 1
F#
F#

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B
B

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Billy Horton was a cautious man of the road
F#
F#

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He walked looking over his shoulder
C#
C#

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Remained faithful to its code
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F#

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When something caught his eye
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B

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He'd measure his need
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C#
C#

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F#
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And then very carefully he'd proceed
Billy met a young girl
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B

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in the early days of May
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F#

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It was there in her arms
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A#m

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F#
F#

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B
B

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he let his cautiousness slip away
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F#

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In their lover's twilight
B
B

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as the evening sky grew dim
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F#

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He laid back in her arms
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C#

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F#
F#

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and laughed at what had happened to him
B
B

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On his right hand
Billy tattooed the word love
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A#m

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and on his left hand was the word fear
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F#

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And in which hand he held
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his faith was nev er clear
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Come Indian summer
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B

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he took his young lover for his bride
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F#

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With his own hands built
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her a great house
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B
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A#m
A#m

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B
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down by the river side
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F#
F#

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Now Billy was an honest man
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He wanted to do what was right
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He worked hard to fill their lives
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C#

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with happy days and loving night
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And alone on his knees
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in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray
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F#

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For he knew in a restless heart
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F#
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the seed of betrayal lay
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One night, Billy woke from
a terrible dream,
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A#m

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calling his wife's name
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F#

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She lay breathing beside him
in a peaceful sleep,
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C#

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a thousand miles away
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He got dressed in the moonlight,
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and down to the highway he strode
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And when he got there,
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B
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A#m
A#m

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he did n't find nothing but road
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But he felt a coldness rise up inside him
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B

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That he couldn't name
F#
F#

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Just as the words tattooed
across his knuckles
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A#m

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B
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He knew it would always remain
At their bedside
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he brushed the hair
from his wife's face
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As the moon shone on her skin so white
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F#

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Filling their room
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F#
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in the beauty of God's fallen light

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