Rock Salt And Nails chords by Waylon Jennings

Chords with lyrics

Key: FF

🎸 Intro:

FF  C majorC FF



🎸 Verse :
          FF              DmDm
By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold
      Bb majorBb             FF
Wild birds warble the strange sounding song
          Bb majorBb             FF
By the banks of the river where the waters run cold
         Bb majorBb              FF
Was there I first listened to the lies that she told

Riff:
FF  C majorC FF


🎸 Verse 2:
          FF           DmDm
He lays there each night all alone and he weeps
       Bb majorBb             FF
Nothing ain't worse than a night without sleep
        Bb majorBb               FF
The letters she wrote him they were written in vain
          Bb majorBb             FF
But I know that her conscience still echoes my name


Riff:
FF  C majorC FF


🎸 Verse 3:
          FF               DmDm
If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were thrushes
         Bb majorBb           FF
I'd lay there for hours in the cold rainy marshes
          Bb majorBb                FF
If the ladies were squirrels (yeah) with a big bushy tail
        Bb majorBb             FF
I'd fill up my shotgun with-a rock salt and nails


🎸 Outro:
         Bb majorBb              FF
We'd fill up our shotguns with-a rock salt and nails