The Bluegrass Widow chords by Robert Earl Keen

THE BLUEGRASS WIDOW

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It's been five years come this autumn, She remembers well the day   Robert Earl Keen
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The day the fever got him and took him far a way

Far away from always knowin' that the love they shared was true
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Far a way the fiddlers bowin' " Grass River Blues"

It was in the dead of winter when her man first caught the chill
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It was said he heard the angels singin' " Cabin On the Hill"

Through the springtime he was groanin' "maybe time to pass and go"
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By the summer she was moanin' Good Old Lover please come home

Chorus:
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Now she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow
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She prays to Carter Stanley, won't you please tell Bill Monroe
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I'd rather be in some dark hollow or some dark, deep shady grove
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Than to be a Bluegrass widow, oh, oh oh

Instrumental:
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Will you miss me when I'm gone were his final words to her
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Darlin' think of what you've been to me re plied his Knoxville girl

And the leaves had started turnin when his mind began to fail
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Then he broke down in a breakdown now she wears a long black veil

Chorus, Twice through to end