Pistols & Rifles chords by Fred Eaglesmith

SimplifiedEm · D · C · G

GuitarPianoUkulele

Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Grandpa sits by the back door
D 
and he can't see any more
C 
He lost his sight in sixty -four
Em 
and we lead him like a horse to water
But in the evening
C 
D 
when the shadows get long a  -sittin',
I'm playin' my favorite songs
C 
Listens for a while,
but it doesn't take long
Em 
And he's a -hollerin'
G 
He says, play me a song
D 
About rifles and pistols
G 
Winchester, Smiths, and Wessons
D 
.45s and Enfields
C 
Settle them up and ride
them down
Em 
There's a darkness out on
the edge of town
D 
Preacher at the gravesite
C 
with the Bible
Em 
D 
Play me a song
Em 
About pistols and rifles
Grandpa was born in 1904
D 
And he never fought in any wars
C 
Too old for the second
Em 
Too young for the first he told
But he loves to hear them
C 
cowboy songs,
Em 
D 
the ones that just go on and on.
C 
He listens till his head would nod
Em 
and he's in snow.
G 
And he says, play me a song
D 
G 
about rifles and pistols.
Winchester, Smiths, and Wessons,
D 
40 ,000 infants.
C 
Saddle them up and ride them down.
Em 
There's a darkness out on
the edge of town.
D 
C 
Creature at the gravesite with a Bible
Em 
D 
Play me a song
Em 
Without pistols and rifles
D 
C 
Em 
D 
C 
Em 
Oh, last week, the week before last
D 
I led my old grandpa down the path
C 
Out where the prairie grasses
Em 
grow for miles
I showed him where to
C 
point and how to stand
D 
Put an old Henry rifle in his hand
C 
You should have heard him laughing
Em 
when he got it  fired
G 
He says play me a song
D 
about rifles and pistols
G 
Winchester, Smiths and Wessons,
D 
.45s and Enfields
C 
Saddle them up and
ride them down
Em 
There's a darkness out on
the edge of town
D 
Preacher at the gravesite
C 
with the Bible
Em 
D 
Play me a song
Em 
About pistols and rifles
Grandpa sits by the back door
D 
He can't see anymore
C 
He lost his sight in sixty -four
Em 
They lead him like a horse to water
You