Village Song chords by Paris Paloma

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C

Verse 1:

Am              C/G               F
   The farmer's wife cooks at the window
              G                 C
In that small cottage under the willow
         Am                     F
Over the river, so freezing, so cold

F

Am               C/G             F
   In that white house up on the hill
                      G
Where a man saw a way out
               C
And took it he did
               Am
A family moved in
                   F
I don't think they know

F

Chorus:

        F                           C
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
        Am                          G
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
        F                           C
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
        Am                        G
And the petals they fall and turn brown
      Dm     Am/C
At my feet
C                    G/B              Dm      Am/C
  And the rhythms of autumn wash over me
C                    G


Verse 2:

Am          C/G                   F
   When I return from the city to home
              G
I pass by the churchyard
               C
He's standing alone
             Am                   F
That elderly man whose wife I did know

F

Am                  C/G                       F
   Her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother too
                  G                      C
All sleep side by side beneath the green dew
             Am                             F
That elderly man thinks that he'll join them soon

F

Chorus:

        F                         C
And the apples they fall like the shells from the guns
        Am                    G
And the shotgun it misses the hare when he runs
       F                             C
And he moves like the wind with cold air in his lungs
        Am                         G
And his little warm heart beats in fear
       Dm     Am/C
Like a drum

C                    G/B

        F                          C
And the night it draws in like the hand that will fall
         Am                         G
With its scythen black curtain make tombs of us all
        F                       C
And the sun's little visits are starting to shorten
        Am                           G
And the village it lives through the rhythms of autumn


Bridge:

        F                         C
And the creatures die at the hand of those who kill
        Am                       G
And the leaves will decay by the winters that chill
    F                          C
And some will pass on by their own desperate will
     Am                         G
Just like that man in the white house on the hill


Chorus:

        F                           C
And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves
        Am                          G
And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth
        F                           C
And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet
        Am                        G
And the petals they fall and turn brown
      Dm     Am/C
At my feet
C                    G/B              Dm      Am/C
  And the rhythms of autumn wash over me
C                    G             N.C.
  And the rhythms of autumn watch over me