I Wear Your Love
Written by Gary Burr
Performed by Kathy Mattea on "Time Passes By"
Submitted by Ken Arnold
Capo 3
Intro: G G
Verse 1:
C G
The things I've collected, bought or selected
C G
The clutter that fills up my rooms
C G
I can lock up and leave it, never retrieve it.
C Am G
Leave nothing but my love for you.
B7 C Am7 D D
Let the storm winds blow, I will not be cold.
Refrain:
G C
I wear your love
D G D C
Thrown over my shoulders like a blanket of down
G C
I wear your love
D G D C
like a bright suit of armor re-flecting the sun
G C B7 C
On the chilliest night though I travel light.
G C D G G
It is always enough for I wear your love.
Verse 2:
C G
You watched without knowing where I was going
C G
Trusting the vision I'd found
C G
For if dreams were a fire, I had desire
C Am G
That could burn this old house to the ground.
B7 C Am7 D
So I walk quite free, for sur-rounding me
Refrain:
G C
I wear your love
D G D C
like a scarf that I borrowed that still holds your per-fume.
G C
I wear your love
D G D C
pulled tight as I'm sleeping under a cold lovers's moon.
G C B7 C
On the chilliest night though I travel light.
G C D G G
It is always enough for I wear your love.
Bridge:
F C Dm
Don't you know, can't you see
Am Dm
Head to toe it is covering me
Dm7 C Dm
Like a stone, the oceans's tide
E
Nothing can hurt me or turn me aside.
Refrain:
A D
For I wear your love
E A E D
Thrown over my shoulders like a blanket of down.
A D
I wear your love
E A E D
Like a badge of de-votion of love and be-yond.
A D C#7 D
On the chilliest night though I travel light.
A D E A
It is always e-nough for I wear your love.
A D E (hold) A D - A - D - A
It is always e-nough for I wear your love.
