Verse I 
C                           F C                 Em 
Swore that I was livin' free.  Oh, you couldn't talk to me 
        Am                F                    G 
And the pride that kept me didn't want no company 
              C            F C             Em 
Early mornin' subway train,   feelin' lost and runnin' late 
         Am          F                     G   F   Em   G 
Well, he held the car, he gave his seat to me 
 
CHORUS 
      C          G       Am       C             F       G       C 
And I can't find nothin' feels so fine as lovin' a good hearted man 
           C          G        Am             C         F    G       C 
Oh, he can soothe me, free me, Oh, I'm gonna marry that good hearted man 
 
VERSE II  
C                              F C                        Em 
I told him that he'd better go,   cause I was crazy and impossible 
        Am              F                      G 
That my love was broken, my dreams had run off wild 
           C             F C              Em               
Patient as the easy rain,    Oh, he never turned away 
         Am               F                       G     F   Em   G 
Callin', "Hey, sweet woman, you know you're not a child 
 
CHORUS 
 
BRIDGE 
G                         Am 
Good hearted man, now the night makes sense 
             Dm                          G 
Because your tenderness, it's shelterin' me 
 
VERSE III 
                       C            F C                   Em 
So I'm tradin' in that hot head kid,    for a woman I can give to him 
             Am                  F             G    F       Em           G 
And it ain't easy but I'm gonna, do the best I can, Oh that good hearted man 
 
You know that . . . 
 
CHORUS 2 
C          G       Am       C                 F    G       C 
Just ain't nothin' feels so fine as lovin', a good hearted man 
           C          G        Am            C          F    G       C 
Oh, he can soothe me, free me, Oh, I'm gonna marry that good hearted man 
            C         G         Am          C               F     G      C 
Oh, and I'm grateful, grateful, got to say "Thank you" to a good hearted man 
 
 
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