Hell & Gone chords by Rees Shad

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Intro 1

Verse 1
C 
I was  (C major) born on the outland pass,
F 
and bottled by my mother's hair  (F major) 
Am 
Don't re (A minor) member her face,
G 
but I recall the smell of bad whis (G major) key
C 
on a woman's breath  (C major) 
Raised by an aunt on the
eastern shore,
F 
brought me up this across the bear  (F major) 
Am 
A yardstick (A minor) , schoolmarm attitude,
G 
C 
a slight frown,  (G major) a shitbox in my  (C major) ear
F 
And  (F major) if I'd asked her what
G 
it was I'd  (G major) done
F 
She'd say, it's in  (F major) your blood,
G 
you are your father (G major) 's son
F 
Em 
Dm 
And you're  (F major) gone,  (E minor) gone,  (D minor) gone
G 
C 
Off  (G major) to heaven, gone  (C major) 
It weren't four years from my tenth birthday
F 
I found myself in a uniform  (F major) 
Am 
Fight (A minor) ing for the glory described to me
G 
C 
And wait (G major) ing for my dram to come  (C major) 
F 
Shackled  (F major) me,
G 
some drunk thing I'd  (G major) done
F 
Sergeant said,  (F major) it's just cause
G 
you're a peasant's  (G major) son
F 
Em 
Dm 
And you're  (F major) gone,  (E minor) gone,  (D minor) gone
G 
C 
You're  (G major) all to hell an (C major) d  gone
Em 
E 
Em 
I  (E minor) went to  (E major) church  (E minor) and
F 
confessed  (F major) my sin
C 
G 
Sail on,  (C major) silence came as my list  (G major) was long
E 
Em 
An (E major) d last the vicar  (E minor) said
F 
there ain't a  (F major) prayer or a hymn
C 
G 
to  (C major) turn you from that  (G major) trip you're on
F 
Em 
Dm 
Because you're  (F major) gone,  (E minor) gone,  (D minor) gone,
G 
C 
off  (G major) to hell and gone  (C major) 
Crossed the sea in a whaling ship
F 
to escape my destiny  (F major) 
Am 
And  (A minor) there I found the black -eyed girl
Dm 
Am 
G 
C 
 (D minor) who  (A minor) was  (G major) gentle and kind to  (C major) me
To the vicar a sabbath,
to the king a slave,
but she's the saintliest
F 
soul I've  (F major) seen
Am 
Forced  (A minor) to serve most of my life,
G 
C 
but this has  (G major) finally set me free  (C major) 
F 
G 
Some  (F major) would wonder what it was I'd  (G major) done
F 
G 
In her arm (F major) s, there's salvation to be  (G major) won
F 
Em 
Dm 
As I'm  (F major) gone,  (E minor) gone,  (D minor) gone,
G 
C 
G 
C 
not  (G major) off the hill and gone  (C major)  (G major)  (C major) 
F 
Em 
Dm 
Oh, I'm not gone,  (F major)  (E minor) gone,  (D minor) gone,
G 
off  (G major) the hill and gone