In The Gravel Yard chords by Blue Highway

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: BB

Difficulty: Novice

In The Gravel Yard -- Blue Highway


Blugrass Strumming Pattern

Instrumental break:
—G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/
G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/

Chorus:
G+G              C majorC       G+G
In the gravel yard, with a number for my name
G+G              D MajorD       G+G
Making little rocks out of big rocks all day
G+G              C majorC        G+G
Oh, the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard
G+G         D MajorD        G+G
I'll never be a free man, so they say.


Instrumental break:
—G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/
G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/


Verse 1:
G+G          C majorC       G+G
Warden hear my plea, listen now to me
G+G            D MajorD       G+G
I killed a man that I caught with my wife
G+G              C majorC         G+G
You'd probably do the same, so why am I to blame
G+G         D MajorD      G+G
Sentenced to the rest of my life


Chorus:
G+G              C majorC       G+G
In the gravel yard, with a number for my name
G+G              D MajorD       G+G
Making little rocks out of big rocks all day
G+G              C majorC        G+G
Oh, the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard
G+G         D MajorD        G+G
I'll never be a free man, so they say.

Instrumental break:
—G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/
G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/


Verse 2:
G+G             C majorC      G+G
In the driven rain with a ball and chain
G+G             D MajorD      G+G
My hammer rings a low and mournful sound
G+G               C majorC        G+G
I sing a little song for the one who done me wrong
G+G           D MajorD      G+G
She’s lyin’ in the cold, cold ground


Chorus:
G+G              C majorC       G+G
In the gravel yard, with a number for my name
G+G              D MajorD       G+G
Making little rocks out of big rocks all day
G+G              C majorC        G+G
Oh, the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard
G+G         D MajorD        G+G
I'll never be a free man, so they say.


Instrumental break:
—G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/
G---/G---/C---/G---/G---/D---/G---/G---/


Chorus:
G+G              C majorC       G+G
In the gravel yard, with a number for my name
G+G              D MajorD       G+G
Making little rocks out of big rocks all day
G+G              C majorC        G+G
Oh, the work is mighty hard in the gravel yard
G+G         D MajorD        G+G
I'll never be a free man, so they say. G---/D---/G---/G---/end