Carousel chords by Iron & Wine

Capo 4

C C/B Am
Almost home
    G          Em
When I missed the bottom stair
      G         Em
You were braiding your gray hair
    C C/B  Am
It had grown so long
   G     Em
Since I'd been gone

    C  C/B Am
And the perfect girls
    G         Em
By the pool, they would protest
   G         Em
The cross around their necks
     C   C/B  Am
But our sons were overseas
G             Em         C   C/B  Am
And we all know about the hive and the honey bees

G  Em  G  Em

C  C/B Am
Almost home
     G         Em
With an olive branch and a dove
      G          Em
You were beating on a Persian rug
      C      C/B   Am
With your bible and your wedding band
    Em       G
Both hidden on a TV stand

     C  C/B  Am
And the cruel wind blew
    G     Em
Every city father fell
      G    Em
Off the county carousel
      C   C/B   Am
While the dogs were eating snow
     G         Em        C   C/B   Am
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes

G  Em  G  Em

C C/B  Am
Almost home
    G        Em
We got lost on our new street
       G         Em
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
     C   C/B   Am
So the dogs all went unfed
      G         Em
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed

     C  C/B   Am
And the cops couldn't care
       G        Em
When that crackhead built a boat
       G        Em
And said, "Please, before I go
     C   C/B  Am
May our only honored bone
     G      Em         C    C/B    Am