Holy Diggers Hole chords by Holy Locust

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

Gm G C Gm F Gm



🎸 Verse 1:
Gm
I have come to know the weight of woe in the holy digger's hole
                         F        C              Gm
I  have come to sow the seeds he left when he did go
Gm
I  have come from down that lonesome road with cold black water rain
                         F                C                Gm
I have come to sing the songs we heard trapped within the grain
           Bb              C             Gm
And every child turned to stone in the sun
Gm                                    C                     Gm
And  the pigs all meet their maker at the sound of their own drum

🎸 Bridge:
Gm F Gm

🎸 Verse 2:
Gm
I  have come to you with weary feet broken from the road
                          F             C             Gm
I have come only to leave again, for my soul I have sold
Gm
I  have come with wrenched for the cogs of the all-consuming beast
                                  F          C             Gm
I have come here with a great vengeance, to say the very least
             Bb                 C                Gm
And You can take my hands and chain my feet to flame
      G               C             Gm
Oh, others like me soon will come again
               Eb                Gm            F
And  they have come to steal the fire from our eyes
Gm
But when the road grows cold we’ll still know which way to go
                      C              Gm
Spitting curses from deep within the hole

🎸 Interlude:
Gm G C Gm F C Gm

🎸 Verse 3:
Gm
I have come to know the sound of spring sung through winter’s frost
                         F        C              Gm
I have come out of the dark to seek and to be sought
Gm
I have come with water for to grow new life on an ancient word
                                F          C           Gm
Where it lied for four hundred years; a whisper never heard
             Bb                    C                Gm
And you can steal the veins from mighty mountain tops
                 Bb                 C                    Gm
Oh, you dig, dig down until the spinning of the world stops

🎸 Bridge:
Gm F C Gm

🎸 Verse 4:
Gm
I have come to be the gallows weight, lone shadow in the sand
                          F               C                Gm
I have come across four hundred ghosts trapped within the land
Gm
And I have come with curses for the king and all his golden guns
                          F           C         Gm
I have come here in the shadow of a thousand suns

         Bb                    C                   Gm
And the floodgates fail and a burning ship set sail
             Bb                C                    Gm
Oh when the hands of time all wave to wish them well
           Eb   G         Gm        F
They have come to usurp gold and green
Gm                        G5
When the light grows old it will shine seven fold
           Bb         C               Gm
Spitting curses from deep within the hole

🎸 Bridge:
Gm F C Gm

🎸 Outro:
Gm
I have gone with my only home to walk among the cold
                        Fm          Cm            Gm
I have gone to lie me down in that holy digger's hole