Long Bed From Kenya chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

Long bed from Kenya

Capo 4th fret

  C majorC         G+G         A minorAm          FF
 See the Redtail on her perch upon the fencepost,
C majorC                G+G
  Highway 40 roll on by.
C majorC         G+G            A minorAm          FF
  If I could reach across the distance for a moment,
C majorC           G+G             C majorC
  I'd steal the sadness from her eyes.
  C majorC        G+G          A minorAm            FF
2.   It's February and the weather's clear for driving,
C majorC                         G+G
  how I've missed your Tennessee.
C majorC            G+G             A minorAm             FF
  The morning sun just stole the shadows from the mountains,
C majorC         G+G            C majorC
  and the years away from me.

Chorus
G+G                     FF           C majorC
  Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G+G           E MajorE            A minorAm
  but you still look the same to me.
FF          G+G            C majorC          A minorAm
  And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C majorC       G+G          C majorC
  as the sky in Tennessee.

  + instrumental

  C majorC        G+G           A minorAm       FF
 This old farm is ne'er so big as I remember,
C majorC                           G+G
  now the fields are burned and brown.
C majorC           G+G           A minorAm          FF
  The Pigeon River's running deeper than December,
C majorC           G+G            C majorC
  where the Winter snows lay down.
           C majorC            - G+G       A minorAm              FF
How you love your house    and this long bed sent from Kenya,
         C majorC                                 G+G
  and the telling of the story of the woman you met there.
          C majorC             - G+G         A minorAm          FF
  She's a darkhaired beauty  -  my hair's only growing thinner,
C majorC          G+G         C majorC
  and my threads a little bare.

G+G                     FF           C majorC
  Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G+G           E MajorE            A minorAm
  but you still look the same to me.
FF          G+G            C majorC          A minorAm
  And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C majorC       G+G          C majorC
  as the sky in Tennessee.

instrumental

  C majorC      G+G            A minorAm          FF
In the silence hear the years, we dare not speak of,
C majorC                     G+G
  let this arrow pass on through.
C majorC          G+G            A minorAm          FF
  And I'll be gone before my heart has met resistance,
C majorC         G+G             C majorC
  like you hoped that I would do.

  C majorC         G+G     A minorAm     FF
See the Redtail turn her wing toward the mountain,
C majorC                         G+G
  God there's sunlight in your smile.
C majorC         G+G         A minorAm      FF
  If I could reach across the distance for a moment,
C majorC            G+G             C majorC
  I'd steal her memory from your eyes.

G+G             FF          C majorC
  Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G+G           E MajorE            A minorAm
  but you still look the same to me.
FF          G+G            C majorC          A minorAm
  And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C.         G+G          C majorC
Than the sky in Tennessee (bis)