Chords with lyrics
Tracy Grammer - Preston Miller
INTRO: A minorAm
G+G A minorAm
He was born in Miller's mansion when the mistress was asleep
C majorC G+G A minorAm
The secret son of the chambermaid and master
G+G A minorAm
And they sent him into hiding, for his schooling and his keep
C majorC G+G A minorAm
With the Carlyles and the other lucky bastards
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Now his toady tutors fawn and praise the man that he's become
C majorC G+G EsusEsus E MajorE
Though he's taken to the Laudanum and Faro
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And he walks the streets like velvet death with his daddy's money on his breath
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And a shame he cannot shake, down in his marrow
CHORUS:
A minorAm DmDm
When day fades to black, you must not listen to the killer
C majorC G+G EsusEsus E MajorE
Pretty voices keep you beautiful and bound
A minorAm DmDm
'Cause the simple sorry fact of your existence, Preston Miller
FF G+G A minorAm
Is enough to bring this house of evil down
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
One night upon some drunken dare, he writes his absent sire
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Saying, "Father, I would fain come home to meet thee"
G+G A minorAm
And though his worthless friends guffaw at this sudden show of fire
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Another round of bourbon and it's easy
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And this letter finds his father in his tower far away
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And the hoary claw that holds it shakes and trembles
A minorAm G+G
Is it grief over a life misspent, or love or greed or mere contempt
C majorC G+G A minorAm
Or something darker stirring in his temples
CHORUS
A minorAm DmDm
When day fades to black, you must not listen to the killer
C majorC G+G EsusEsus E MajorE
Pretty voices keep you beautiful and bound
A minorAm DmDm
'Cause the simple sorry fact of your existence, Preston Miller
FF G+G A minorAm
Is enough to bring this house of evil down
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
A augmentedA week gone by, he's wakened by a knocking at his door
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And he drags himself half-wasted to the threshold
G+G A minorAm
It's a message in his father's quill saying, "Meet me, scion, if you will
C majorC G+G A minorAm
At the very stroke of midnight in the meadow"
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Now he has combed his laggard locks, and hired a comely roan
C majorC G+G EsusEsus E MajorE
And he's met his comrade fops around the fountain
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And he's bidden each a grand goodbye, and he's cantered off alone
C majorC G+G A minorAm
To meet his aged father in the mountains
CHORUS
A minorAm DmDm
When day fades to black, you must not listen to the killer
C majorC G+G EsusEsus E MajorE
Pretty voices keep you beautiful and bound
A minorAm DmDm
'Cause the simple sorry fact of your existence, Preston Miller
FF G+G A minorAm
Is enough to bring this house of evil down
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
"Oh, Father dear, come out, come out, I honour thee tonight,"
C majorC G+G A minorAm
He shouts as he goes weaving in the saddle
G+G A minorAm
He sees the stars go blinking by, like the twinkling in a trollop's eye
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And six riders riding madly in the shadows
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
This morning sailed a ship of fools across a sea of gin
C majorC G+G A minorAm
With a blind and grinning Reaper at the tiller
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
And it drove an aging Jacob to his lone and bitter end
C majorC G+G A minorAm
And a bullet through the brain of Preston Miller