Melancholy Child Chords

Intro: Dm Am C Dm Verse 1: Dm Am Dm C Dm A baby with a baby just barely seventeen Dm Am Dm C Dm My mother mourned her innocence while she bounced me on her knee Dm Am C Am A daddy on the road added to her tears and trials Dm Am C Dm Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child Dm Am Dm C Dm Verse 2: Dm Am Dm C Dm The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song Dm Am Dm C Dm My mother's lullaby that train that ran behind our home Dm Am C Am A whippoorwill on a window sill - It should have made me smile Dm Am C Dm But everything sounds lonesome to a melancholy child

Dm Am Dm C Dm Chorus: Asus4 Dm Asus4 Dm Now a restless blood runs in our family Asus4 Dm Am7 A7 I thought I could out run the emptiness inside of me Dm Am C Am So I went a little crazy, went a little wild Dm Am C Dm Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child Dm Am Dm C Dm Verse 3: Dm Am Dm C Dm I met a kind and gentle man who thinks the world of me Dm Am Dm C Dm And when he looks my way it is a woman that he sees Dm Am C Am But when I can't explain to him the tears that fill my eyes Dm Am C Dm He takes me in his arms and rocks his melancholy child Chorus: Asus4 Dm Asus7 Dm You take a black Irish temper and some solemn Cherokee Asus4 Dm Am7 A7 A Southern sense of humour and you got someone like me Dm Am C Am There are thorns on every rose to this I'm reconciled Dm Am C Dm They're just a little sharper to a melancholy child Outro: Dm Am Am7 Am C Dm And in my own babe's eyes I see the signs of melancholy child Dm Am Dm C Dm Heaven help us all, another melancholy child Dm Am Dm C Dm (repeat)