Muddy Hymnal chords by Iron & Wine

Capo 1st Fret

 C                     D
found your name across the chapel door
G                    C
carved in cursive with a table fork
G
muddy hymnals
          C                        D
and some bootmarks where you'd been

C                          D
the shaking preacher told the captain's man
G                     C
the righteous suffer in a fallen land
G

and pulled the shade
           D                   G
to keep the crowd from peeking in

C                          D
we found your children by the tavern door
G                         C
with wooden buttons and an apple core
G
playing house
C                          D
and telling everyone you'd drowned

C                       D
the begging choir told the captain's man
G                         C
we all assume the worst the best we can
G
and for a round or two
D                      G
they'd gladly track you down

C                           D
we found you sleeping by your lover's stone
G                   C
a ream of paper and a telephone
G
a broken bow
C                   D
across a long lost violin

C                       D
your lover's angel told the captain's man
G                           C
it never ends the way we had it planned
G
and kissed her palm
D                             G
and placed it on your dreaming head