Bitter Cold Countryside chords by Sun City Girls

Chords with lyrics

This is a song about murdering a preacher
-Richard Bishop

[Verse]

  G+G           C majorC    G+G
We soak the mush from bleeding chests
  G+G      C majorC     G+G
Our wings they need a-fixin
   E minorEm       B minorBm
We swarm the oven's open jaw
   C majorC         D7D7
Our talons spread wide, glisten
  G+G         C majorC  G+G
We coax the Father's tenderness
    C majorC    G+G
From neath his chin unshaved
   E minorEm       B minorBm
And smash him way upside the head
   C majorC    D MajorD     G+G
For all the souls he's saved

[Chorus]

    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him in the shallows
    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him far and wide
    E minorEm             B minorBm
And he swayed some more from the gallows
    C majorC     D MajorD    G+G
Of the bitter cold countryside

[Verse]

    G+G       C majorC     G+G
Well he came from the great big city
   G+G        C majorC    G+G
To instill in us shrunken brows
    E minorEm        B minorBm
And he came without any rifles
    C majorC        D7D7
Any chickens, pigs, or cows
    G+G    C majorC    G+G
And he came on Sunday morning
    G+G    C majorC     G+G
On the coldest day of the year
    E minorEm       B minorBm
But we don't want no uninvited
    C majorC     D MajorD      G+G
City slickers to come 'round here

[Chorus]

    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him in the shallows
    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him far and wide
    E minorEm             B minorBm
And he swayed some more from the gallows
    C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
Of the bitter cold countryside

[Verse]

    G+G      C majorC     G+G
And he came with a badge of courage
    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And a book and a bag of gold
    E minorEm        B minorBm
And he rode in on a white pony
    C majorC            D MajorD
That Ol' Bobby Wiley eventually sold
    G+G    C majorC    G+G
And he came a-preachin' Jesus
    G+G    C majorC    G+G
Fearing God, goodwill and hope
    E minorEm        B minorBm
Then he loosened up his collar
       C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
And I said "Floyd....get a rope"

[Chorus]
     G+G    C majorC     G+G
Then we hung him from the rafters
     G+G    C majorC     G+G
And we lynched him in the barn
     E minorEm           B minorBm
Then we wrapped him from head to toe
     C majorC           D7D7
With some of Aunt Opal's finest yarn
     G+G      C majorC     G+G
Then we chopped him into six pieces
     G+G    C majorC    G+G
Two arms, two legs and a head
     E minorEm           B minorBm
And his mid-section made a fine table
     C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
Next to Jimmy-O-Wilkinson's bed

[Verse]
     G+G    C majorC      G+G
And his toes now creep in the river
     G+G      C majorC     G+G
And his fingers they tickle the corn
     E minorEm           B minorBm
And his skull flies high in the hemlock....
     C majorC    D MajorD    G+G
From dusk till the early morn

[Chorus]

    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him in the shallows
    G+G     C majorC    G+G
And we buried him far and wide
    E minorEm             B minorBm
And he swayed some more from the gallows
    C majorC      D MajorD   G+G
Of the bitter cold countryside

[Verse]
  G+G    C majorC   G+G
So let this be a warnin'
  G+G    C majorC       G+G
To you God fearin' urban scum
  E minorEm          B minorBm
If you wanna live in the country
  C majorC     D MajorD        C majorC G+G