Shake The Foundation chords by The Band Of Heathens

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Verse 1
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We've got a
nice song about death here.
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Can you continue the theme?
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I can hear mama singing at
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the hanging tree
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It sounds like someone singing harmony
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An  d   me and my brother,
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we don't make a pea
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We go down slow to the hanging trees
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The hanging trees down by
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the river's edge
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Come upstream and peek
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over the ledge
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Mama's got a rope and
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a kitchen knife
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The harmony singer is the
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preacher's wife
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Mama put a Bible into her right hand
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And asked her if she'd been
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seeing her man
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But      me and my
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brother don't hear no more
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Cause right then the rain began to pour
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Was an hour past dark
when she came back home
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We never saw
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Pop around here no more
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The preacher's wife,
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she don't leave his side
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He ain't got papa to tear no hide
Mama took to sitting by the
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hanging tree
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There ain't nobody singing
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harmony
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And my older brother, he took his life
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And I  took to peepin' on the preacher's wife
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So
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I left my
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momma when I was sixteen
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Strung up in the limbs of the
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hangin' tree
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