Murder In The Red Barn chords by Tom Waits
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Key: Cm
🎸 Intro:
Cm G7 Cm x4
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🎸 Chorus:
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
🎸 Verse 1:
Cm G7 Cm G7
The trees are bending over and the cows are lying down
Cm G7 Cm G7
The autumn's taking over, you can hear the Buckshot hounds
Cm G7 Cm G7
The watchman said to Reba the loon
Cm G7 Cm G7
Was it pale at Manzanita, was it Blind Bob the coon?
Cm G7 Cm G7
Pin it on a drifter they sleep beneath the bridge
Cm G7 Cm G7
One plays the violin and sleeps inside a fridge
🎸 Chorus:
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
🎸 Verse 2:
Cm G7 Cm G7
Someone's crying in the woods, someone's burying all his clothes
Cm G7 Cm G7
Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer slept outside last night and froze
Cm G7 Cm G7
Roadkill has its seasons just like anything
Cm G7 Cm G7
There's possums in the autumn and there's farm cats in the spring
🎸 Chorus:
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
🎸 Verse 3:
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm
Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house or covet they neighbor's wife
G7 Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
But for some murder is the only door through which they enter life
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
Well, they surrounded the house, they smoked him out, took him off in chains
Cm G7 Cm G7
They sky runed black and bruised and we had months of heavy rains
Cm G7 Cm G7
Now, the ravens nest in the rotted roof of Chenoweth's old place
Cm G7 Cm G7
And no one's asking Cal about that scar upon his face
Cm G7 Cm G7 Cm G7
'Cause there's nothin' strange about an axe with bloodstains in barn,
Cm G7 Cm G7
There's always some killin' you got to do around the farm
🎸 Chorus:
Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
🎸 Verse 4:
Cm G7 Cm G7
The woods will never tell what sleeps beneath the trees
Cm G7 Cm G7
Or what's buried 'neath a rock or hiding in the leaves
Cm G7 Cm G7
'Cause Roadkill has its seasons just like anything
Cm G7 Cm G7
There's possums in the autumn and there's farm cats in the spring
🎸 Chorus:
Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
🎸 Verse 5:
Cm G7 Cm G7
Now, a lady can't do nothin' without folks' tongues waggin'
Cm G7 Cm G7
Is this blood on the tree or is it autumn's red blaze?
Cm G7 Cm G7
When the ground' soft for diggin' and the rain will bring all this gloom
Cm G7 Cm G7
There's nothing wrong with a lady drinking alone in her room
🎸 Outro:
Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
Cm G7 Cm G7
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn
Cm G7 Cm G7
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