These Old Bones chords by Dolly Parton

Chords with lyrics

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These old bones will tell your story, these old bones will never lie

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These old bones will tell you surely what you can't see with your eye

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These old bones, I shake and rattle, these old bones, I toss and roll

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And it's all in where they scatter, tells you what the future holds


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Oh, she lived up on the mountain eleven miles or so from town

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With a one-eyed cat named Wink, a billy goat and a blue tick hound

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Her graying hair was braided and wrapped around her head

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And her dress was long and faded, and her home a rusty shed

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In a little pouch of burlap tied with a piece of twine

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There were bones all shapes and sizes, gathered through the course of time

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She'd throw them out before you, she swore that she could see

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The present, past and future, she could ready your desti- ny


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Every- body knew about her, came to get their fortune read

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Concerning health and wealth and power, who to love and when to wed

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Well, I just like helpin' people, I'm just glad that I could help

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Why, I know everybody's secrets, but I keep it to my- self

Chorus:

      D MajorD                    A augmentedA         D MajorD
These old bones will tell your story, these old bones will never lie

                           G+G        D MajorD
These old bones will tell you surely what you can't see with your eye

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These old bones, I shake and rattle, these old bones, I toss and roll

                        G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
And it's all in where they scatter, tells you what the future holds


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Some called her witchy woman, some said she was in- sane

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Some said she was a prophet, still everybody came

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Just because a body's different, well, that don't make 'em mad

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Well, they've crucified a many for the special gifts they've had


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I had often heard about her, dreamed a- bout her now and then

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For I, too, was clairvoyant, came a- bout when I was ten

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I was fascinated with her, and the things I'd heard a- bout

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And I knew some day I'd meet her, and one day it came a- bout


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Well, I know'd that you 'uz a'comin', I could feel it in my bones

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These old bones have also told me that I won't be here for long

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Did you know that you 'uz adopted, did you know you once't was mine?

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But the county took you from me, said I wasn't right in mind


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But I just know'd I had to see you 'fore these bones was laid to rest

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So I conjured up a message, it must'a worked, I guess

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This gift runs in the family, I know you also know

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And I passed this gift on to you, these old bones, they're just for show


Chorus:

      D MajorD                    A augmentedA         D MajorD
These old bones will tell your story, these old bones will never lie

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These old bones will tell you surely how to live and when you'll die

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These old bones I shake and rattle, these old bones I toss and roll

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And it's all in where they scatter tells you what the future holds


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I held her hand while she was dyin' and with the funeral through

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I headed on back up the mountain for Billy, Wink and Blue

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And that little pouch of burlap with those bones so worn and old

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She give me somethin' special, now every time I throw


Chorus:

      D MajorD                    A augmentedA         D MajorD
These old bones will tell your story, these old bones will never lie

                           G+G        D MajorD
These old bones will tell you surely what you can't see with your eye

                        A/EA/E     A augmentedA     D MajorD
These old bones I shake and rattle, these old bones I toss and roll

                       G+G     A augmentedA    D MajorD
And it's all in how they scatter, tells you what the future holds


(Ending chorus)
      D MajorD         A augmentedA    D MajorD         G+G    A augmentedA   D MajorD
These old bones, these old bones, these old bones, these old bones

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These old bones, these old bones, these old bones, these old bones

      D MajorD         A augmentedA    D MajorD         G+G    A augmentedA   D MajorD
These old bones, these old bones, these old bones, these old bones

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These old bones, these old bones, these old bones, these old bones

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These old bones, these old bones, these old bones, these old bones ---


(Talking on the ending chorus)
Now I can't tell you what you want to hear, I just tell you what I see
It's these old bones a'talkin', blame it on them, don't pack it on me
It's just like that time that there boy died up at the sawmill
Well, I know'd who done it, but I never said
And I know'd when somebody is a-cheatin'
Or when somebody's baby was gonna be born dead
But unless somebody just plain out and asked me
Well, I just figured there ain't no point goin' around actin' like you know everything
Just 'cause you might
Ah, you know, girl, I want you to take these bones
'Cause I don't want no young'un of mine a'going around unprepared
You just remember that the magic is inside you
There ain't no crystal ball