Take these chains from my heart    (video)

 

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    Take these chains from my heart and set me fr...........ee !

 

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1. Take these chains from my heart and set me free,

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    you’ve grown cold and no longer care for me.

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    All my faith in you is gone, but the heartache lingers on,

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    take these chains from my heart and set me free.

 

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2. Take these tears from my eyes and let me see,

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    just a spark of the love that used to be.

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    If you love somebody new, let me find a new love, too,

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    take these chains from my heart and set me free.

 

+  instrumental = verse 2

 

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3. Give my heart just the words of sympathy,

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    be as fair to my heart as you can be.

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    Then if you no longer care for the love that’s beating there,

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    take these chains from my heart and set me free.

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    Take these chains from my heart and set me free. Set me free.

 

 

(Orig. = capo 3rd)    (Ray Charles)