Slaughterhouse Road chords by Emily Scott Robinson

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:
    A minorAm
There's blood across the bayou
G+G        A minorAm
Down in Mississippi
        G+G
Where they been killin' since the Civil War
           A minorAm
Over money, land, and whiskey



   A minorAm
But don't go ask about it
G+G         A minorAm
People don't take kind
    DmDm
To you diggin' up those skeletons
  E7E7          A minorAm
You leave 'em where they lie

G+G  A minorAm

A minorAm
Was it pills or alcohol?
G+G        A minorAm
Meth or devil's cane?
     G+G
Or did he catch a whiff of somethin'
              A minorAm
That would send him to his grave?

  A minorAm
Or did he have a death wish?
G+G         A minorAm
Was his heart too weak?
   DmDm
They found him lyin' face-down
E7E7        A minorAm
Floatin' in the creek


Chorus:
      FF    G+G       A minorAm
Preacher's dead on Slaughterhouse Road
      DmDm E7E7    A minorAm
Who did him in
nobody knows
      DmDm   E7E7       A minorAm
His body's cold on Slaughterhouse Road

G+G  A minorAm

Verse 2:
   A minorAm
Well some say he was a straight shot
G+G         A minorAm
Kept his own nose clean
   G+G
Some say he was a man of God
             A minorAm
You won't hear that from me

    A minorAm
Well I know he had a Bible church
  G+G    A minorAm
On Highway 28
  DmDm
But laying hands and praying loud
   E7E7        A minorAm
Don't mean that you is saved

   A minorAm
Oh it says in Revelation
    G+G      A minorAm
That idolators and liars
   DmDm
Will come to meet their second death
   E7E7       A minorAm
In a lake of burnin' fire

Chorus:
      FF    G+G       A minorAm
Preacher's dead on Slaughterhouse Road
      DmDm E7E7    A minorAm
Who did him in
nobody knows
      DmDm   E7E7       A minorAm
His body's cold on Slaughterhouse Road

Interlude:
G+G A minorAm  DmDm E7E7 A minorAm

Verse 3:
   A minorAm
Well, we was highschool sweethearts
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Married twenty years
  G+G
Sometimes you don't see right away
   G+G          A minorAm
What time will soon make clear

     A minorAm
Well, he had a taste for younger girls
G+G          A minorAm
Sleepin' around with trash
    DmDm
I found lipstick on his collared shirt
  E7E7       A minorAm
And somethin' in me snapped

     A minorAm
Well they came around to question me
   G+G        A minorAm
Two good ol' country cops
   G+G
Then tipped their hats, said "Thank you ma'am
          A minorAm
"So sorry for your loss"

    A minorAm
And it looked just like an accident
G+G        A minorAm
Final cause of death
  DmDm
Not Miller Lite with cyanide
   E7E7    A minorAm
Just cardiac arrest
  DmDm
Not Miller Lite with cyanide
   E7E7    A minorAm
Just cardiac arrest


Chorus:
      FF    G+G       A minorAm
Preacher's dead on Slaughterhouse Road
      DmDm E7E7    A minorAm
Who did him in
nobody knows
      DmDm    E7E7      A minorAm
His body's cold on Slaughterhouse Road
      DmDm E7E7    A minorAm
Who did him in
God only knows