Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs chords by The Handsome Family

Chords with lyrics

Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
From the album Through the Trees

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 G+G           D MajorD
Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
            A augmentedA
Two lovers lay in the weeds
 G+G             D MajorD
Safe in the net of their sweaty arms
        A augmentedA      D MajorD
Safe from the wind in the trees

  G+G                D MajorD
My love, said the boy, you're the clear blue sky
              A augmentedA
You're the air I gulp to breathe
  G+G         D MajorD
I feel you rushing through my veins
             A augmentedA     D MajorD
Like the wind rushing through the trees

  G+G               D MajorD
My love, said the girl, you're my secret pearl
                A augmentedA
You're a string of tiny glass beads
     G+G       D MajorD
You're a burning star I keep in a jar
        A augmentedA      D MajorD
Safe from the wind in the trees

  G+G      D MajorD              A augmentedA         G+G       D MajorD           A augmentedA   D MajorD
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 G+G           D MajorD
Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
              A augmentedA
Two lovers lay back in the weeds
 G+G            D MajorD
Listening to the howl of hunting dogs
            A augmentedA     D MajorD
And the wind howling through the trees

   G+G          D MajorD
Then insects ran for the underbrush
                   A augmentedA
As the wind filled the air with dead leaves
  G+G          D MajorD
And every stone turned slowly to dust
          A augmentedA     D MajorD
As the wind tore through the trees

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[Bass arr. for guitar]

     G+G           D MajorD
So the young girl pierced her lily-white breast
              A augmentedA
Her blood poured over dark weeds
  G+G           D MajorD
A augmentedA silver dagger through her burning heart
       A augmentedA      D MajorD
Cold as the wind in the trees

     G+G          D MajorD
Then the boy picked up that bloody knife
              A augmentedA
And stove it through his chest
   G+G           D MajorD
Farewell, farewell to the wind and the trees
          A augmentedA     D MajorD