Key: B minor•
Verse 1
Jenkins
lived about a half a mile from town
F#
Not too far, not too near, but in between
with flowers in the yard
F#
Bm
Ivy climbing up the window screen
One morning when the old gray rooster
crowed the coming dawn
Mary
to do her daily chores
Bm
Cm
Bm
G
chickens fed
G#
Cm
She gathered eggs, slopped the hogs,
went out to the barn
and gave the reins a flick
G
Cm
Rode toward the depot all alone
She waited for an hour and the
train came a -rollin' in
in place to board her rig
Cm
G
Bm
C#m
a word
She hired some boys to dig the grave
and help her with the box
While the heat of the noonday
that fastened to the lid
Filled the hole and stuck
G#
Dbm
the cross into the ground
Then she sat down in her rocking
chair to rest a little while
and fancy foreign names
Then she rocked a while, prayed,
G#
C#m
put out the light, and went to bed
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TunerE A D G B E
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