Billy Eckstine

Prisoner of Love

Billy Eckstine


Tom: D

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Alone from night to night you'll find me
D7M     D        D6        F#m      Bb9
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
Em      G/B        A7/6   Edim
I need no shackles to remind me
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I'm just a prisoner of love
E7/9    Bm7/9         A7/13     A7
For one command I stand and wait now
D7M       D     D6     F#m      Bb9
From one who's master of my fate now
Em        G/B             A7/13    Edim
I can't escape, for it's too late now 
D           Gm           D
I'm just a prisoner of love
Bridge
        F#m        C#m5-/7
What's the good of my caring 
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If someone is sharing those arms with me
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Although she has another
  F#m      C#7        F#    C#7   A7
I can't have another, for I'm not free
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She's in my dreams, awake or sleeping
D7M   D    D6      F#m      Bb9
Upon my knees to her I'm creeping
Em     G/B          A7/13    Edim
My very life is in her keeping
D           Gm           D
I'm just a prisoner of love