Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse:
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X Bury me in blood oil
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(Bury me in blood oil) Salt, sugar, water pails
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X Build me black Jesus
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('cause Jesus can't save me) Shackles pulling at your hair
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(Shine me from roots out) Shine me from roots out
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(Wash me from the neck down) Wash me from the neck down
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(Put me in the fat stores) Put me in the fat stores
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(Take me to the tree line) Take me to the tree line
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
N.C.
I'm a heading down, down, down
N.C.
Down to the river 'cause I don't believe in medicine
🎸 Instrumental:
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🎸 Pre-Chorus:
N.C.
I'll crawl out shaking pale
N.C.
Always got the answer I got ears all around me
🎸 Instrumental:
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
🎸 Verse:
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(Burn up in black smoke) Burn up in black smoke
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(Thick and pouring down your throat) Thick and pouring down your throat
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(Make me of bread walks) Make me of bread walks
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(Listen up with ears we're diving) Listen up with ears we're diving
🎸 Verse:
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Bury me in blood oil (Bury me in blood oil)
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Salt, sugar, water, pales (Bury me in blood oil)
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(Bury me in blood oil) Build me black Jesus
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('Cause Jesus can't save me) Shackles pulling at your hair
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
N.C.
I'm a written page and a giant man
N.C.
Never sick in bed so I never needed medicine
🎸 Instrumental:
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
🎸 Chorus:
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Tell your children we got another year coming
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Oil stains the legs of this body; Speaks in tongues and croaks: I'm heading down
🎸 Solo:
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🎸 Bridge:
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I'll walk down to the river where we met our pales
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Wisdom spilling like our southern friends
(Bury me in blood oil)
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Metal pail atop the rocks and moss
(Bury me in blood oil, Salt, sugar, water pale)
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Grass grips licks about our heels and bends
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
N.C.
I'm a heading down, down, down
N.C.
Down to the river 'cause I don't believe in medicine
🎸 Instrumental:
DmDm DmDm DmDm DmDm
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
N.C.
When I grow out I'll be shaking dirt
N.C.
Never need the answer, I've got hands all around me
🎸 Instrumental:
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
🎸 Chorus:
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Tell your children we got another year coming
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Oil stains the legs of this body; Speaks in tongues and croaks: I'm heading down
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Tell your children we spent a year in this fire
DmDm DmDm G+G C majorC
Copper bands and Hell's getting lighter, among those lines we can only get higher
🎸 Outro:
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Tell your children we got another year coming