Death And Life chords by Jamie Lin Wilson

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A minorAm DmDm A minorAm

Verse 1:
C majorC              G+G       DmDm        FF
Got her legs crossed at her ankles and her purse down by her feet
  C majorC       G+G         FF
She takes a look around and wonders how this came to be
  C majorC         G+G         DmDm      FF
The boy that's there beside her, spittin' image of the man
  C majorC        G+G           FF            FF
Who carried all the weight and built this house with his two hands

Chorus 1:
FF                 G+G
In forty-some-odd years she never had to sleep alone
     C majorC       G+G       A minorAm
It's been three years in November, she still ain't bought a stone
    C majorC      G+G      DmDm        FF
Said "I used to be a lover but I still feel like a wife"
      C majorC      G+G          FF       FF
That's the way that it goes in the game of death and life

Verse 2:
 C majorC       G+G        DmDm       FF
A augmentedA father always tries to treat a boy just like a man
    C majorC       G+G          FF
And he saw his had a way to work through life with his two hands
  C majorC        G+G     DmDm
He knew that he was dying but before his days were done
     C majorC        G+G         FF          FF
After he said all his goodbyes he asked one more thing of his son


Verse 3:
FF                   G+G
Well his old man died in April and he went to build a box
   C majorC       G+G      A minorAm
Every nail and every board was a tear that never dropped
    C majorC     G+G        DmDm       FF
Then he had a baby boy born on the same day as his dad
   C majorC        G+G         FF           FF
So he took his name to give him, it's the best thing that he had

Chorus 2:
FF                 G+G
Souls, they move in circles as the generations pass
    C majorC         G+G          A minorAm
And the old ones hold the young as though the time will never last
    C majorC         G+G      DmDm         FF
And the dusk leads to the dawn as the darkness brings us light
      C majorC      G+G      FF
That's the way that it goes in the game of death and life

Instrumental:
FF C majorC G+G DmDm FF C majorC G+G FF C majorC G+G DmDm FF C majorC G+G FF

Verse 4:
    C majorC        G+G            DmDm      FF
All the children at the graveyard, they're just jumping over rocks
      C majorC        G+G        FF
And they're reading all the names on all the cemetery plots
    C majorC       G+G         DmDm       FF
They're soaking up the sun and wondering how it feels to die
      C majorC      G+G      FF           FF
That's the way that it goes in the game of death and life

Chorus 3:
FF                 G+G
Souls, they move in circles as the generations pass
    C majorC          G+G         A minorAm
And the young ones hold the old like it's the only thing they have
  C majorC         G+G      DmDm         FF
The dusk leads to the dawn as the darkness brings us light
      C majorC      G+G      FF
That's the way that it goes in the game of death and life
      C majorC      G+G      FF
That's the way that it goes in the game of death and life
      C majorC      G+G  FF   DmDm FF
That's the way that it goes ............