Key: B major
Verse 1
Am
C
Em
Am
G
My sympath
C
Em
D
G
y runs deep,
Em
D
G
from experience I do read
Em
Am
That from the start life makes a
G
Em
G
Am
promise it can't keep
Dsus4
Em
D
G
One hopes, one waits, one searches
Em
D
G
From lonesomes to high churches
D
G
Am
while you swing from your birches
Dsus4
Am
G
I don't know how long
Em
Am
G
I refused to see that I was wrong
D
Em
Am
G
And the promises they'd done
Em
Am
Dsus4
G
had kept me drunk
Em
Am
G
Your mother taught you to be brave,
Am
Em
but you always come back
Am
G
to a grave.
C
Em
D
G
Howling like an abandoned
C
G
C
Am
dog gone astray.
C
Em
D
from push to shove
G
C
Em
D
G
Nevermore will she shelter from a bug
C
Em
D
Nor will those gentle lips
G
C
G
Am
speak to her blood
Dsus4
C
Em
Am
G
And I don't know how long
C
Em
Am
G
I refused to see that I was wrong
C
Em
Am
G
And the promises they'd done
Em
Am
had kept me drunk
D
Am
Em
Am
It's hard to be so adored,
C
G
Am
G
from the Lord
C
Em
Then your world becomes bound
Am
G
Em
and you falsely say,
Am
Dsus4
G
I've been found
D
Em
Am
G
Here come the keepers of time,
C
Em
D
G
all armed with a tooth and a chan
C
Em
Each will wound you,
D
G
C
G
C
Am
the last will kill you, you'll find
D
C
Em
D
G
Your days are mellow and fast,
Em
D
G
how many more can you last?
Em
D
You peer into the great unknown
G
Em
G
Am
and you realize it's vast
Dsus4
C
D
G
And I don't know how long
C
Dsus4
I refused to see that
Am
G
I was wrong
Am
Em
G
And the promises that them
Em
Am
had kept me drunk
C
D
Am
I'm left with nothing but re gret
G
Am
Over the horses I
Am
D
But sundown near
Am
G
Em
and many things are still unclear
Outro 1
Am
Dsus4
C
Em
Am
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