The Man from God Knows Where
The Man from God Knows Where

The Man from God Knows Where easy guitar chords by Tom Russell

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    • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    Come 
    gather 
    round 
    me 
    children, 

    a story 
    I 
    will 
    tell 

    I've 
    been 
    around 
    since 
    Jesus 

    met 
    the wo
    man 
    at 
    the well 

    I've 
    walks 
    these 
    roads 
    ten 
    thousand 
    years, 

    I'm a 
    ragtime 
    million
    aire 

    I 
    am 
    the rake 
    and 
    the ramblin' 
    saint, 

    the man 
    from 
    god 
    knows where. 

    Verse 2
    Oh, 
    they 
    hung 
    me 
    in 
    Downpatrick, up 

    near 
    St.Patrick's tomb 

    But 
    my 
    ghost 
    rose 
    up 
    in 
    the peat 
    fire 

    smoke 
    toward 
    the 
    rising 
    of 
    the moon 

    Now 
    as 
    I 
    drift 
    through 
    your 
    villages, 

    all the 
    maidens 
    stop 
    and stare 

    There 
    goes 
    old 
    Tom 
    the vagabond, 

    the man 
    from 
    god 
    knows 
    where. 

    Verse 3
    So 
    its 
    rise 
    up 
    all 
    you 
    ancestors, 

    and 
    dance 
    upon 
    your 
    graves 

    I've 
    come 
    to 
    hear 
    your 
    voices 
    now 

    so maybe 
    I'll 
    be 
    saved 

    Cursed 
    are 
    we 
    who 
    forget 
    the 
    past, 

    but pray 
    and 
    don't 
    despair 

    My 
    song 
    is might 
    haunt 
    your 
    dreams 
    tonight, 

    I'm 
    the man 
    from 
    god 
    knows 
    where 

    I've slept 
    beneath your bridges 
    near your 
    oil refineries 

    Verse 4
    I've gambled 
    on your 

    river boats, 

    Shenandoha; Kanakee 

    I'm the homeless 
    lad, I'm the 
    orphan child, leaves 

    of grass sewn 
    through my hair 

    Yeah, me and old 
    Walt Whitman, 

    we're the 
    men from god 
    knows where 

    I've 
    rode the rods 
    on steam trains 
    with a banjo 
    on my knee 

    While 
    the ghost of Stepan 

    Verse 5
    Foster whispered 

    lines to 
    me 

    Of the 
    storefront curch and the chain 

    gang choir; Black sorrow 
    filled the air 

    Then 
    Stephen died 
    on a dross house 
    floor, like a man 

    from god knows 
    where 

    Verse 6
    I've heard the 
    sound of 
    Indian drums, 

    I've heard the bugles 
    blow 

    Before 
    they re- wrote 
    history, into a 

    Wild West show 

    My kin sailed toward 
    America 
    to 

    steal their Indian 
    ground 

    They 
    passed bill Cody's 

    ships, European 
    bound 

    Verse 7
    So 
    lock up all your 
    daughters, 

    your whiskey 
    and your gold 

    I have come to claim 
    my bounty, 

    for the lies that 
    I've been told 

    And as 
    I look out 
    on this crowd tonight, 

    I see most 
    of you don't care 

    Come lift your 
    glass, reveal your 
    past, to the 

    man from god 

    knows where 

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