Apples In The Basket chords by Gordon Bok

Chords with lyrics

Intro A minorAm D MajorD G+G

Verse
            C majorC
The sun comes over the top of the hill
D MajorD             G+G
Shines on the fields I've yet to till
  C majorC     G/BG/B     A minorAm
My bones are weary, but I know I will
  G+G     C majorC     D MajorD
And not just because you ask it

Verse
E minorEm          C majorC
Rake and hoe hung on twenty-penny nails
D MajorD          G+G
Milk lies sweet in a dozen pails
C majorC     G/BG/B   A minorAm
Hay piled up in a hundred bales
  D MajorD       G+G    A minorAm  D MajorD
And apples in the basket

Verse
 G+G             C majorC
A augmentedA house that's tight to the wind and snow
 D MajorD            G+G        C majorC
A augmentedA barn that's full of the things we grow
   G/BG/B    A minorAm
Empty purse, but I don't owe
 G+G    C majorC    D MajorD
A augmentedA thing to any man living

Verse
 E minorEm         C majorC
A augmentedA woman warm, a woman kind
 D MajorD          G+G
A augmentedA woman who knows her own sweet mind
 C majorC     G/BG/B    A minorAm
A augmentedA woman who knows just what's behind
  D MajorD          G+G   A minorAm  D MajorD
The things that she's forgiven

Verse
    G+G        C majorC
There's branches on the family tree
     D MajorD         G+G
There's a boy, a girl and a baby's three
   C majorC     G/BG/B    A minorAm
They look like her, they look like me
   G+G      C majorC    D MajorD
Like folks that's dead and gone now

Verse
  E minorEm         C majorC
But I don't care, we're all the same
    D MajorD         G+G
There's none to bless and none to blame
   C majorC    G/BG/B  A minorAm
We're doing it in the family's name
  D MajorD       G+G    A minorAm  D MajorD
The work we carry on now

Verse
  G+G            C majorC
The old grey goose is on the wing
  D MajorD       G+G
But he'll be back again next spring
   C majorC    G/BG/B  A minorAm
Each year we do the same old thing
    G+G    C majorC     D MajorD
And the same old wheel goes spinning

Verse
     E minorEm         C majorC
When the air is warm and the earth is sweet
    D MajorD         G+G
And the good clean dirt is on our feet
  C majorC   G/BG/B  A minorAm
The circle comes around complete
    D MajorD      G+G     A minorAm  D MajorD
And the end is the beginning

Verse
  G+G         C majorC
The sun comes over the top of the hill
D MajorD             G+G
Shines on the fields I've yet to till
  C majorC     G/BG/B     A minorAm
My bones are weary, but I know I will
  G+G     C majorC     D MajorD
And not just because you ask it

Verse
E minorEm          C majorC
Rake and hoe hung on twenty-penny nails
D MajorD          G+G
Milk lies sweet in a dozen pails
C majorC     G/BG/B   A minorAm
Hay piled up in a hundred bales
  D MajorD       G+G    A minorAm  D MajorD  G+G
And apples in the basket