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- flatwound -
SINS OF THE FATHER
**** CAPO 1st FRET ****
ALT CHORD SHAPES ALSO USING CAPO 1st FRET :Am = 577555,Dm = X57765, 
E7E7 = 07675X
A minorAm A minorAm
God said don't give me your tin horn prayers
A minorAm A minorAm
And don't buy roses from the street down there
DmDm DmDm
Took it all and took the dirt road home
A minorAm A minorAm
Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
E7E7 A minorAm
Night is falling like a bloody axe
E7E7 A minorAm
Lies and rumours and the wind at my back
E7E7 A minorAm
Hand on the wheel, Gravel on the road
E7E7 E7E7
Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
Birds cry a warning from a hidden branch
A minorAm A minorAm
Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
DmDm DmDm
I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
A minorAm A minorAm
Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
E7E7 A minorAm
The world's not easy the blind man said
E7E7 A minorAm
Turns on nothing but money and dread
E7E7 A minorAm
Dogs been scratching at the door all night
E7E7 E7E7
Long necked birds flying out of the moonlight
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
A minorAm A minorAm
The star spangled glitter of his one good eye
DmDm DmDm
Everybody knows that the game was rigged
A minorAm A minorAm
Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
E7E7 A minorAm
Dark town alleys been hiding you
E7E7 A minorAm
Long bell tolling is your Waterloo
E7E7 A minorAm
Oh baby what can you do
E7E7 E7E7
Does the light of God blind you, Or lead the way home for you
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
INST: AS VERSE
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
God almighty for righteousness sake
A minorAm A minorAm
Humilation of our fallen state
DmDm DmDm
Written in the Book of Tubal Cain
A minorAm A minorAm
A augmentedA long black coat will show no stain
E7E7 A minorAm
Feel the heat and the burn on your back
E7E7 A minorAm
The rip and the moan, The stretch of the rack
E7E7 A minorAm
All my belongings in a flour sack
E7E7 E7E7
Will the place I come from take me back
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
A minorAm A minorAm
To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig
DmDm DmDm
Treats you like a puppet when you're under it's spell
A minorAm A minorAm
Oh the heart is Heaven, But the mind is Hell
E7E7 A minorAm
Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
E7E7 A minorAm
I's born at this time for a reason you see
E7E7 A minorAm
When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time
E7E7 E7E7
But the wines so pleasing and so sublime
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
A minorAm A minorAm
Everything I done is between God and me
DmDm DmDm
Only he will judge how my time was spent
A minorAm A minorAm
Twentynine days of sinning and forty to repent
E7E7 A minorAm
The horse is steady but the horse is blind
E7E7 A minorAm
Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
E7E7 A minorAm
The roots grow upward and the branches grow down
E7E7 E7E7
It's much too late to throw the dice again I've found
A minorAm A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
A minorAm E7E7 A minorAm
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond
A minorAm A minorAm
I'm gonna wash them, I'm gonna wash them
A minorAm A minorAm
I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father
A minorAm E7E7
I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother
A minorAm A minorAm
I'm gonna wash the sins of my brother
A minorAm A minorAm A minorAm A minorAm
Till the water runs clear, Till the water runs clear
A minorAm A minorAm A minorAm A minorAm
