Verse 1: G C C/B C C/B A7 On the old forgotten crossways where the fourteen rivers did meet G C C/B C C/B A7 The bones of our elders were lying in the street G C C/B C C/B A7 On the dark and dusty desert like a ghost I've flown G C C/B C C/B A7 I barely cried wherever I'd ride I never found a home Chorus: C D G Woe on me Am C D Somehow I will feel more free B7 C To wallow in the empty headed peace Am C D Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease
Verse 2: G C C/B C C/B A7 I am just a ramshackle I go from town to town G C C/B C C/B A7 Where there is no shelter I lay down on the ground G C C/B C C/B A7 I've killed for no reason I've p**sed upon a kind G C C/B C C/B A7 Cost them all and burned the bone when I've had the time Chorus: C D G Woe on me Am C D Somehow I will feel more free B7 C To wallow in the empty headed peace Am C D Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease Verse 3: G C C/B C C/B A7 Well there's saints and there are animals they've taken what they could G C C/B C C/B A7 And it's written in the pages to do just what they should G C C/B C C/B A7 Well they stood the test and burned the rest and tore them limb from limb G C C/B C C/B A7 Like a fashion with no passion they open up their skin Chorus: C D G Woe on me Am C D Somehow I will feel more free B7 C To wallow in the empty headed peace Am C D Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease