Your Baby Was Asleep chords by Tom Hickox

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

  DmDm                 A7/E
The lights were on, and you were gone, working for your wheat
    Dm/F            D7/F#D7/F#
And the shadow from the minute hand shifted in retreat
  G minorGm             Dm/A
And I will write your elegy, a craftsman at his peak
  A7/E                   DmDm
If you can tell me where you were when your baby was asleep

 DmDm                    A7/E
I picked up tips, learned my tricks from professionals on the street
Dm/F                D7/F#D7/F#
Have my slab and cleaving blades, a butcher on my neat
  G minorGm                 Dm/A
And I will carve the choicest cuts, and serve them as your treat
  A7/E                   DmDm
If you can tell me where you were when your baby was asleep

Chorus:

G minorGm       DmDm
Gentle was the touch of you
   Gm7/Bb    Am7/C
Your hands they commit
  Gm7/Bb    Dm/A
Did scatter every demon where
  A7/E    DmDm
Your baby was asleep

(Weird Interlude)


Verse:

  DmDm               A7/E
And now you say to me today through stained and gritted teeth
   Dm/F               D7/F#D7/F#
That you had tried your uttermost to delay the laurel wreath
  G minorGm               Dm/A
And thinking of your father's disapproval makes you weak
   A7/E              DmDm
Cause you were not a father when your baby was asleep


Chorus:

G minorGm       DmDm
Gentle was the touch of you
   Gm7/Bb    Am7/C
Your hands they commit
  Gm7/Bb    Dm/A
Did scatter every demon where
  A7/E    DmDm