Dirt In The Ground chords by Tom Waits

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
What does it matter
Em 
C 
D 
A dream of love, or a dream of lies?
We're all gonna be in the same
G 
place when we die
B 
Em 
C 
Your spirit don't leave knowing
Em 
C 
Your face or your name
D 
The wind through your bones
G 
B 
as all that remains
Em 
C 
D 
Em 
And we're all gonna be, yeah
C 
D 
Em 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
I said we're all going to
be just dirt in the ground

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Verse 2
C 
The quill from a buzzard
Em 
C 
D 
The blood writes the word
G 
I want to know am I the sky
B 
Em 
or a bird?
C 
'Cause hell is boiling over
Em 
C 
And heaven is full
D 
We're chained to the world
G 
B 
And we all gotta pull
Em 
C 
D 
And we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
I said we're all going to be
just dirt in the ground

Verse 3
C 
Now the killer was smiling
Em 
With nerves made of stone
C 
D 
He climbed the stairs
G 
B 
And the gallows groaned
Em 
C 
And the people's hearts were pounding
Em 
C 
They were throbbing, they were red
D 
He swung out over the crowd,
G 
B 
I heard the hangman said
Em 
C 
D 
We're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
I said we're all going to be
just dirt in the ground

Verse 4
Em 
C 
Now, Cain slew Abel
Em 
C 
He killed him with a stone
D 
G 
The sky cracked open
B 
And the thunder groaned
Em 
C 
Along a river of flesh
Em 
C 
Can these dry bones live?
D 
Take a  king or a beggar
G 
B 
And the answer they'll give
Em 
C 
D 
Is we're all gonna be yeah, yeah
Em 
C 
D 
Em 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
C 
D 
I said we're all gonna be, yeah, yeah
Em 
I said we're all going to be
just dirt in the ground
We're all going to be just
D 
Em 
dirt in the ground
C 
D 
Em 
We're all going to be just dirt in the ground
C 
I said we're all going to be
D 
Em 
just dirt in the ground
Yeah, we're all going to
C 
D 
be just dirt in the ground
Em 