Born Again Fool

Patty Loveless

Written by Roger Brown

Key of C · Chords: I IV V vi

Verse 1

C            F              C           G7
He sits on a park bench and stares into space
         C             F          G7       C
Thinking of his bright future has now been erased
                F           C           G7
He once loved a woman whose love wasn't true
    C        F            G7         C
Now all that remains is a born again fool

Verse 2

                   F           C          G7
Mistakes he's made many in his passage of life
C           F              G7            C
She was the first wrong he couldn't make right
                F          C       G7
She left him no reason she left no excuse
        C            F          G7         C
All she left was the shell of a born again fool

Verse 3

  F                           C
Believing that her love would be his salvation
    F                            C         G7
But faith in her heart proved to be his damnation
C            F          C             G7
Another falsado another heart torn in two
           C         F         G7         C
Oh there's no one as lost as a born again fool

Verse 4

                     F             C           G7
Well he gave all she asked for she took all he had
    C            F           G7         C
She made him her puppet with no strings attached
               F             C     G7
He did all she wanted but he never knew
        C    F          G7         C
She was only creating a born again fool

Verse 5

  F                           C
Believing that her love would be his salvation
    F                            C         G7
But faith in her heart proved to be his damnation
C            F          C             G7
Another falsado another heart torn in two
           C         F         G7         Am
Oh there's no one as lost as a born again fool

Verse 6

   C         F                C         G7
He sits on a park bench still wondering why
       C           F          G7         C
As the whole world unnoticing passes him by
                  F                C            G7
Such a forgone conclusion that his life led him to
  C            F             G7        C
Betrayed and deceived he's a born gain fool