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Riding With The King by B.B. King and Eric Clapton

    [Intro]
    A7  B7
     
    [Verse 1]
    B7
    I dreamed I did a good job and I got well paid
                               E7
    Blew it all at the penny arcade
    B7
    A hundred dollars on a kewpie doll
                                            E7
    I guess no white chick is gonna make me crawl
     
    [Chorus 1]
    G7                            F7
    On a TWA, to the promised land
    E7
    Every woman, child and man
    G7
    Gets a cadillac and a diamond ring
    A7                                   B7     E7 A7
    Dont you know we're riding with the king?
     
    [Verse 2]
    B7
    Hes on a mission of mercy to the new frontier
                                     E7
    Hes gonna check us all on out of here
    B7
    Up to that mansion on a hill
                                           E7
    Where you can get your prescription filled
     
    [Chorus 2]
    G7                             F7 E7
    On a TWA to the promised land
    E7
    Everybody come on and clap your hands
    G7
    Dont you just love the way he sings
    A7                                   B7   E7 A7
    Dont you know we're riding with the king?
     
    [Bridge]
    D7                           B7
    A red cape and shiny Colt '45
    D7                                  B7
    I never saw his face but I saw the light
    G7
    Tonight everybody's getting their angel wings
    A7                                    B7
    Dont you know we're riding with the king?
    B7                                           E7
    Well I stepped out of a mirror at ten years old
                                 A7
    With a suit cut sharp, as a razor and a heart of gold
    B7
    I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
    E7                                          A7
    I'm gonna play that thing until the day I die
    
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