Key: A major
Intro 1
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
I walk slowly
Verse 1
G
through the tall grass
C
G
And the bramble sharp as cut glass
Sit beneath a willow watching
G
Gsus4
Evening finds me in a dusky room,
G
C
windows open to the moon
dark and lonely
Bb
C
Dsus4
C
Dsus4
Home wasn't built in a
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
day
I sit outside and I try to find
Reason to be here in time
C
G
like beetles in a beelow glade, swirl like plans best laid,
and I remember every brick,
C
G
C
G
every stone and every stick, every dead end that we traveled,
C
G
hardest slate and loosest gravel, and
Every detour along the way
Bb
C
Dsus4
G
Gsus4
G
C
G
C
And a home wasn't built in a day
G
C
F
C
G
C
F
C
Bb
C
F
Bb
Dm
D
C
D
Dm
G
C
rain sneaks through the roof at night, black smoke
from the chimney leak, run away and never speak,
and every rock pulled from the mud
G
F
And oh, what a price you got to pay
C
Bb
G
Dsus4
D
G
C
Cause home was n't built in a day
C
G
Each day like the first time
C
G
I wake only to find
What were we thinking?
The weight of these things is staggering
C
G
And now I'm slowly sinking
C
G
C
G
C
Come the morning, come what may,
G
F
Dsus4
D
G
F
C
G
Home wasn't built in a day.
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
C
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
C
G
Gsus4
G
C
G
Gsus4
C
G
Gsus4
G
Gsus4
G
C
G
I'm
You
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