MAIN RIFF:
C G/C Am Em C
E|-------------------------/---7-------------------------|
B|---5---5---5---5---1---1-/---8---8-----5---5----5---5--|
G|---0---0---0---0---2---2-/-------9-----0---0----0---0--|
D|-----0-------0-------2---/-----9---------0--------0----|
A|--3--------------0-------/-7--------3---------3--------|
E|---------3---------------------------------------------|
Intro: (Main Riff x2)
Verse 1:
C G/C Am Em C
Older brother, restless soul, lie down.
C G/C Am Em C
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth.
C G/C Am Em C
You can hear your sister sleep talking,
G/C Am Em C
Say ‘you’re hair is long but not long enough to reach
Chorus:
C G
E|-----------------------------------|
B|---5---5---5---5---3---3----3---3--|
G|---0---0---0---0---0---0----0---0--|
D|-----0-------0---------------------| x2
A|-3-------3-----------0--------0----|
E|-----------------3--------3--------|
C G C G
Home to me, But your beard, Someday might be.
Bridge:
Em7 Cadd9 G
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----|
G|---0---0---0---0—--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----|
D|-----2-------2-------2-------2----------------------| x4
A|-2-------2-------3-------3-----------2-------2------|
E|---------------------------------3-------3----------|
Em7 Cadd9 G
And she’ll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Em7 Cadd9 G
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
Em7 Cadd9 G Em7
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
Cadd9 G
She’ll lay it aside
(Main Riff x2)
Verse 2: (Same picking as riff)
C G/C Am Em C
Older father, weary soul, you’ll drive
G/C Am Em C
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
G/C Am Em C
With that ugly, terrible thing
G/C Am
Those papers for divorce
Em C
And a lonely ring,
Chorus 2: (Same picking as chorus)
G
A lonely ring
C
Sit on your porch
G
And pluck your strings
Bridge 2: (Can pick bridge riff or strum chords)
Em7 Cadd9 G
Oh, and you’ll find somebody you can blame
Em7 Cadd9 G
And you’ll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
Em7 Cadd9 G
And you’ll find the peace of the Lord.
(Main Riff x2)
Verse 3: (Main riff)
C G/C Am Em C
Grandfather, weary soul, you’ll fly
G/C Am Em C
Over your life once more before you die
G/C Am Em
Since our grandma passed away
C G/C Am Em C
You’ve waited for forever and a day
Chorus 3: (Strum)
G
Just to die,
C
And someday soon
G
You will die
Bridge3: (Strum bass note then rest of chord)
Em7 Cadd9 G
It was the only woman you ever loved
Em7 Cadd9 G
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
Em7 Cadd9 G
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
Em7 Cadd9 G-------
And there’s nothing you can do about it now
Outro: (Same as verse - strumming)
C G/C Am Em C x4
G C G x2 (same as chorus)
Outro: G C G x3 (One strum)
Chords Used:
C: X30050
G/C: 3X0050
Am: 002210
Em: 0799870
Em7: 022033
Cadd9: X32033
G: 320033
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