Death And Life chords by Jamie Lin Wilson

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Am Dm Am

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

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

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


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

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

Instrumental:
F C G Dm F C G F C G Dm F C G F

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

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