The Ballad Of William Sycamore chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
(G major) My father was a mountaineer
His (D major) fist was a knotty (G major) hammer
(C major) He was quick on his feet
like a (G major) runnin' (E minor) deer
And he (G major) spoke with (C major) a Yankee
stammer (G major)
Verse 2
And some (C major) are wrapped in (G major) linen (E minor) fine
And some (C major) like a god (G major) ling's scion
(C major) But I was cradled on (G major) twigs (E minor) of pine
In the skin (G major) of a mountain (C major) (G major) lion
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Verse 3
(G major)
I lost my boyhood and found my wife
A girl (D major) like a Salem clip (G major) per
A woman (C major) as straight as a (G major) hunting knife (E minor)
With eye (G major) (G minor) s as bright (C major) as the (G major) Dipper
Verse 4
We cleared (C major) our camp where the
(G major) buffalo feed (E minor) (C major)
Unheard of streams were our flagons (G major)
And I sowed (C major) my sons like (G major) apple seed (E minor)
On (G major) the trail of the Western (C major) wag (G major) ons
Verse 5
They were (G major) right, tight boys,
never sulky (G minor) or slow (G major)
(D major) A fruitful, goodly muster (G major)
The (C major) eldest died at the (G major) Alamo (E minor)
An (G major) d the youngest (C major) fell with Custer
(G major)
Verse 6
(C major) The letter that told it (G major) burned my (E minor) hand (C major)
I smiled and said, "So be (G major) it!"
But I could (C major) not live when they
fenced (G major) my land (E minor)
Oh it broke (G major) my heart (C major) just to see (G major) it
Verse 7
I saddled (C major) the red, unbroken (G major) colt (E minor) (C major)
I rode him into (G major) the day there
But he threw (C major) me down like a thunderbolt (G major)
(E minor) And (G major) he rolled on me (C major) as (G major) I lay there
Verse 8
Now I lie (G major) in the heart of the fat, black soil
Like the seed (D major) of a prairie thistle (G major)
It has washed (C major) my bones in (G major) honey and (E minor) oil
And (G major) it's picked 'em as
clean (C major) as a whistle
(G major)
Verse 9
And my (C major) youth returns,
like the rains (G major) of Spring (E minor)
(C major) My sons, like wild geese flying (G major)
And I lie (C major) and I hear the meadowlark (G major) (E minor) sing
And (G major) there's much con (C major) tent in my dy (G major) ing
Verse 10
Go play (C major) with the town you have
(G minor) built out of block (E minor) s (C major)
The towns where you may have bound (G major) me
I sleep (C major) in the earth like
a tired (G major) old fox (E minor)
And my buf (G major) falo (C major) have found (G major) me
Verse 11
I sleep (C major) in the earth like a tired (G major) old fox,
(E minor)
And (G major) my buffalo (C major) have found (G major) me
Outro 1
(G major)
The Ballad Of William Sycamore
Tom Russell
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