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