Carousel chords by Iron & Wine

Chords with lyrics

Capo 4

C majorC C/BC/B A minorAm
Almost home
    G+G          E minorEm
When I missed the bottom stair
      G+G         E minorEm
You were braiding your gray hair
    C majorC C/BC/B  A minorAm
It had grown so long
   G+G     E minorEm
Since I'd been gone

    C majorC  C/BC/B A minorAm
And the perfect girls
    G+G         E minorEm
By the pool, they would protest
   G+G         E minorEm
The cross around their necks
     C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
But our sons were overseas
G+G             E minorEm         C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
And we all know about the hive and the honey bees

G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm

C majorC  C/BC/B A minorAm
Almost home
     G+G         E minorEm
With an olive branch and a dove
      G+G          E minorEm
You were beating on a Persian rug
      C majorC      C/BC/B   A minorAm
With your bible and your wedding band
    E minorEm       G+G
Both hidden on a TV stand

     C majorC  C/BC/B  A minorAm
And the cruel wind blew
    G+G     E minorEm
Every city father fell
      G+G    E minorEm
Off the county carousel
      C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm
While the dogs were eating snow
     G+G         E minorEm        C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes

G+G  E minorEm  G+G  E minorEm

C majorC C/BC/B  A minorAm
Almost home
    G+G        E minorEm
We got lost on our new street
       G+G         E minorEm
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
     C majorC   C/BC/B   A minorAm
So the dogs all went unfed
      G+G         E minorEm
A augmentedA great dream of bones all piled on the bed

     C majorC  C/BC/B   A minorAm
And the cops couldn't care
       G+G        E minorEm
When that crackhead built a boat
       G+G        E minorEm
And said, "Please, before I go
     C majorC   C/BC/B  A minorAm
May our only honored bone
     G+G      E minorEm         C majorC    C/BC/B    A minorAm