Chords with lyrics
Key: A
Verse 1:
A D A
The farmer's wife cooks at the window
D A
In that small cottage under the willow
D A
Over the river, so freezing, so cold
A
A D A
In that white house up on the hill
D
Where a man saw a way out
A
And took it he did
D
A family moved in
A
and I don't think they know
Chorus:
D A
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
D A
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
E D
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
E D E C
And the petals they fall and turn brown at my feee-ee-eeet
D E C
And the rhythms of autumn wash over meee-ee-eee
Verse 2:
A D A
When I return from the city to home
D
I pass by the churchyard
A
He's standing alone
D
That elderly man whose wife I did know
A
A D A
Her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother too
D A
All sleep side by side beneath the green dew
D A
That elderly man thinks that he'll join them soon
Chorus:
D A
And the apples they fall like the shells from the guns
D A
And the shotgun it misses the hare when he runs
E D
And he moves like the wind with cold air in his lungs
E D
And his little warm heart beats in fear like a drum
A D A D
And the night it draws in like the hand that will fall with its scythen black curtain make tombs of us all
E D
And the sun's little visits are starting to shorten
E D
And the village it lives through the rhythms of autumn
A D
And the creatures die at the hand of those who kill
A D
And the leaves will decay by the winters that chill
E D
And some will pass on by their own desperate will
E D
Just like that man in the white house on the hill
A D
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
A D
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
E D
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
E D E C
And the petals they fall and turn brown at my feee-ee-eeet
D E C
And the rhythms of autumn wash over meee-ee-eee
E D
And the rhythms of autumn watch over me