The Funeral chords by
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys

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Key: F major

Verse 1
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I was walking in Savannah
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past a church decayed and dim
when slowly through the window
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came a plaintive funeral hymn
and my sympathy awakened
and a wonder quickly grew
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till I found myself envired
in a little colored pew.
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Out front a couple
sat in sorrow nearly while.
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On the altar  was a casket
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and in the casket was a child.
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I could picture him while living,
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curly hair, protruding lips.
I'd seen perhaps a thousand
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in my hurried southern trips.
Rose a sad old colored preacher
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from his little wooden desk
with a manner sort of awkward
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and countenance grotesque.
The simplicity and shrewdness
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D D 
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in his Ethiopian face
showed the wisdom and ignorance
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of a crushed, undying race.
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And he said, now don't be weeping
for this pretty bit of clay,
Gm Gm 3
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for the little boy who lived there
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is done gone and run away.
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He was doing very finely
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and he appreciates your love,
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but his shona father wanted him
in that big house up above.
The Lord didn't give you that baby
by no hundred thousand miles.
He just think you need some
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sunshine
and he lent it for a while.
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And he let you keep and love it
till your hearts was
bigger grown.
And these silver tears
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you're shedding now
is just interest on the loan.
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Just thank my poor
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dear Mona's
creeping long on sorrow's way.
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What a blessed picnic
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G G 
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this here baby got today.
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Your good fathers and good mothers
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crowd the little fellow round
In the angel's tender garden
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of the big plantation ground.
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And his eyes they brightly sparkle
at the pretty things he view,
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But a tear came and he whisper,
I want my parents too.
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But then the angel's chief musician
teach that little boy a song,
Says, if only they be faithful,
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they'll soon be coming along.
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So, my poor detached mourners,
let your hearts with Jesus rest,
And don't go to criticizing
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the one what knows the best.
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He hath given us many comforts,
he's got the right to take away.
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Till the Lord be praised in glory forever,
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let us pray.
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