Take My Ashes To The River chords by Mark Erelli

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
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Verse:
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She was the parson's only daughter
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And a poor sharecropper's dream
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Her voice as sweet as falling water
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From the cool clear mountain stream

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We came to share a love forbidden
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A augmentedA union cursed by family
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To be forever unforgiven
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When we swore eternity

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We settled hard on twenty acres
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Ploughed the fields and worked the land
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But when the fever came to take her
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With its unforgiving hand

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I tried to soothe her shaking body
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But no peace could I provide
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She said, "I hear the angels singing softly
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I'm bound to cross that great divide"

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Take my ashes to the river
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Where the water's cold and deep
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Take my ashes to the river
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Pray the lord my soul to keep

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One mournful morning in late November
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Faithful to her last desire
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I burned her body down to embers
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Scooped the ashes from the fire

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Down on the banks of the Blackstone River
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For to drown her memory
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As her spirit I delivered
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I heard her calling out to me

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    DmDm      A minorAm
Take my ashes to the river
     G+G        D MajorD
Where the water's cold and deep
    DmDm      A minorAm
Take my ashes to the river
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Pray the lord my soul to keep


Outro:
A minorAm