Chickahominy chords by The Weeks

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
E MajorE D MajorD x2

Verse:
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We took knife-hits in the kitchen they dealt drugs out by the stairs and there were
D MajorD
empty rooms the devil looms and tries to keep you there
E MajorE
Talked hours about nothin in the corner by himself with the
D MajorD
rifle and a bible screamin, "Nobody helps" Tell me

Bridge:
E MajorE     D MajorD
why, chicka-hominy

E MajorE D MajorD

Verse:
E MajorE
I saw crosses on the road side, just as far as I can see and they were
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crooked hanging carpenters pumpin electricity
E MajorE
No one stopped to take em down, they all let him do his job cause he kept
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lights on in the houses and brought sinners back to God Tell me

Chorus:
G# minorG#m      A augmentedA            C# minorC#m             D MajorD
why should I believe you when I've been makin it along this road just fine? Tell me
G# minorG#m      A augmentedA           C# minorC#m              D MajorD
why should I believe you when all I see along these roads are powerlines?

Bridge:
E MajorE D MajorD x2

Verse:
E MajorE
Starin at the sunlight won't bring him back to life Send a
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letter to his mother, he had children and a wife
E MajorE
But to hordes of rats and roaches and the homes that held us all he'll
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remember us tomorrow from the hymns that haunt these halls.Tell me

Bridge:
E MajorE     D MajorD
why, chicka-hominy

E MajorE D MajorD

Verse:
E MajorE
He's a liar in the morning with a firey forked tongue he'd
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mistaken truth for virtue and then blamed it on his son I was
E MajorE
held up on the highway by a crooked farmer's wife who learned
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to shoot from her husband and then started her own life Tell me

Chorus:
G# minorG#m      A augmentedA            C# minorC#m             D MajorD
why should I believe you when I've been makin it along this road just fine? Tell me
G# minorG#m      A augmentedA           C# minorC#m              D MajorD
why should I believe you when all I see along these roads are powerlines?

G# minorG#m      A augmentedA   C# minorC#m  D MajorD
Tell me why         oooh
G# minorG#m      A augmentedA   C# minorC#m  D MajorD
Tell me why

Outro:
    D MajorD
Chickahominy

E MajorE D MajorD