Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
On the old forgotten crossways where the fourteen rivers did meet
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
The bones of our elders were lying in the street
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
On the dark and dusty desert like a ghost I've flown
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
I barely cried wherever I'd ride I never found a home
Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD G+G
Woe on me
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Somehow I will feel more free
B7B7 C majorC
To wallow in the empty headed peace
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease
Verse 2:
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
I am just a ramshackle I go from town to town
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
Where there is no shelter I lay down on the ground
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
I've killed for no reason I've p**sed upon a kind
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
Cost them all and burned the bone when I've had the time
Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD G+G
Woe on me
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Somehow I will feel more free
B7B7 C majorC
To wallow in the empty headed peace
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease
Verse 3:
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
Well there's saints and there are animals they've taken what they could
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
And it's written in the pages to do just what they should
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
Well they stood the test and burned the rest and tore them limb from limb
G+G C majorC C/BC/B C majorC C/BC/B A7A7
Like a fashion with no passion they open up their skin
Chorus:
C majorC D MajorD G+G
Woe on me
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Somehow I will feel more free
B7B7 C majorC
To wallow in the empty headed peace
A minorAm C majorC D MajorD
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease