Don't Go into That Barn chords by Tom Waits

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Verse 1
Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn, yea
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Black cellophane sky at  midnite
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A big blue moon with three gold rings
I called Champion to the window
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I pointed up above the trees

Verse 2
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That's when I heard my
name in a scream
Coming from the woods, out there
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I let my  dog run off the chain
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I locked my door real
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good with a chair

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Verse 3

Don't go into that barn, yea

I said: don't go into that barn,

yea

Verse 4
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Everett Lee broke loose again,
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It's worse than the time be  fore
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Because he's high on potato
and tulip wine
Fermented in the muddy rain, of course
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Verse 5
drunken wail, a drunken train
Blew through the birdless trees
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Oh, you're alone alright
You're alone alright
How did I know
How did I know
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Don't

Verse 6

go into that barn, yea

I said: don't go into that barn, yea

Verse 7
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An old black tree,
scratching up the sky
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With boney, claw like fingers
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A rusty black rake
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Digging up the turnips of a muddy
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cold grey sky

Verse 8
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Shiny tooth talons
Coiled for grabbing a stranger
happening by
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And the day went home early
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And the sun sank down into the muck
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of a deep dead sky

Verse 9

Don't go into that barn, yea

I said: don't go into that barn, yea

Back

Verse 10
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since
Saginaw Calinda was born,
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It's been cotton and
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soyabeans, tobacco and corn
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Behind the porticoed house
of a long dead farm
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They found the falling down timbers
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Of a spooky old barn
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Out

Verse 11
there like a slave ship
upside down
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Wrecked beneath the waves of  grain
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When the river is low
They find old bones and
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When they plow they always dig
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up chains

Verse 12

Don't go into that barn, yea

I said: don't go into that barn,

yea

Verse 13
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Did you bury your fire?
Yes sir!
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Did you cover your tracks?
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Yes sir!
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Did you bring your knife?
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Yes sir!
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Did they see your face?
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No sir!
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Did the moon see you?
No sir!
Did you go cross the river?
Yes sir!
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Did you fix your rake?
Yes sir!
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Did you stay down wind?
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Yes sir!
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Did you hide your gun?
Yes sir!
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Did you smuggle your rum?
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Yes sir!
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I said: how did I know
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How did I know
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How did I know

Verse 14
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn,
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yea
Don't forget that I warned you
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I said: don't go into that barn,
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yea
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn,
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yea
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Verse 15
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No  shirt, no coat
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Take me on a flat boat
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Dover down to Covington
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Covington to Louisville
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Louisville to Henderson
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Henderson to Smithland
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Smithland to Memphis
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Memphis down to Vicksburg
Vicksburg to Natchez
Going down to Natchez
Take me on a flat boat
Dover Dam to Covington
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Covington to Louisville
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Louisville to Henderson
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Henderson to