Darkness Visible chords by Tom Russell
Intro 1
Em
F
Am
Em
F
G
Verse 1
Am
D
Darkness visible
G
Gm
Rain clouds oughta boom.
G
So long
Am
C
Maggie, I'm going back to
D
Indiana.
G
Am
I got people there that care about me. I'm lying,
D
G
never had no family.
Gm
G
Am
Circus bum's all I'll ever be.
C
Never been to
D
Indiana.
Gm
G
Am
But I fell in love with a pony ride girl,
D
Bm
Round and round her little
G
ponies twirled,
Am
Sparkling eyes and curly curls,
C
She went back to
D
Indiana.
G
Gm
Am
Always dreamed I'd find her there,
D
G
By some ribbon's forehead,
Am
She married a clergyman, I hear, the
Holy
C
Ghost of
D
Indiana
C
But this road is dark at night
Bm
When you've only got one headlight
Am
And you've lost your appetite
G
for idle dreamin'
C
Nailin' posters up on creosote poles
Bm
jerked awake running off the road don't
Am
C
ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for me,
D
Indiana
G
Am
broken glass, pieces of a heart tin
D
G
cans in a shopping cart
outside
Shorty's
Am
C
Supermarket out in
Texarkana
D
G
Gm
Shorty told me dreamin'
Am
dreams is like chewin' gum
D
G
Chew too long, it all turns to stone
Gm
Am
Spit it out, boy, go on home
C
Or catch a train to
D
Indiana
C
This road is dark at night
Bm
When you've only got one headlight
Am
You've lost your appetite
G
For idle dreamin'
C
Nailin' posters up on creosote poles
Bm
Jerked awake,
runnin' off the road
Am
Don't ask for whom the bell tolls
C
D
G
It tolls for me in the end
Am
G
Darkness visible
D
Rain clouds audible
G
So long
Am
C
Maggie, I'm going back to
D
Indiana
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