Dirt chords by Cody Jinks

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Half-Step Down (D#D# G#G# C#C# F#F# A#A# D#D#)

Key: Eb MajorEb

Difficulty: Novice

All chords shapes used below are relative to the tuning

Intro:
A augmentedA F# minorF#m E MajorE
A augmentedA F# minorF#m E MajorE

Verse:
  F# minorF#m
I remember that summer
   D MajorD
I was ten years old
     A augmentedA       E MajorE
When our days ceased to shine
    F# minorF#m
No, you could not take a breath
      D MajorD
When those black blizzards came
     A augmentedA          E MajorE
Strippin' land in dire need of rain

Verse:
     F# minorF#m
There was dirt on the floor
    D MajorD
As mama swept all day long
    A augmentedA                E MajorE
Leavin' trails of tears and mud down her face
     F# minorF#m
There was dirt in our beds
       D MajorD
And there was dirt in our clothes
       A augmentedA             E MajorE
And there was dirt in the little that we ate

Verse:
    F# minorF#m
We had heard about the market's fall
 D MajorD
A augmentedA couple years before
    A augmentedA                 E MajorE
But the fields and the harvest all seemed fine
  F# minorF#m
Sometimes the things that kill us
D MajorD
That which we don't know
   A augmentedA                E MajorE
That strip the land of everything but pride

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Stay close together
F# minorF#m            E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
That's all we knew to get by
  A augmentedA
I recall a helpless feelin'
F# minorF#m         E MajorE
First time that I sa-aw my father cry
D MajorD               A augmentedA
Looking back on everything we had
           E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
And on everything we lost
A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
Still makes me wonder
            E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
Was staying wo-rth the cost

Verse:
     F# minorF#m
A augmentedA lot of town folk up and left
       D MajorD
They boarded up the schools and banks
    A augmentedA
And the churches
           E MajorE
And that, to me, was wrong
     F# minorF#m
Come next year, it would be better
    D MajorD
For the last one standing tall
    A augmentedA              E MajorE
For the ones - that showed the most resolve

Verse:
   F# minorF#m
They announced the New Deal
        D MajorD
With the Conservation Act and then
  A augmentedA              E MajorE
The Relief Fund - we were on our knees
     F# minorF#m
There was little hope by then
      D MajorD
So we just stood there in that line
    A augmentedA                   E MajorE
And we thanked the man for that little bit of cheese

Chorus:
A augmentedA
Stay close together
F# minorF#m            E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
That's all we knew to get by
  A augmentedA
I recall a helpless feelin'
F# minorF#m         E MajorE
First time that I sa-aw my father cry
D MajorD               A augmentedA
Looking back on everything we had
           E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
And on everything we lost
A augmentedA          F# minorF#m
Still makes me wonder
            E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
Was staying wo-rth the cost

Outro:
F# minorF#m D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
F# minorF#m D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
F# minorF#m D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
F# minorF#m D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE