The Man from God Knows Where chords by Tom Russell
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Intro 1
(A minor)
Verse 1
Come gather round me children, (A minor)
a story (G major) I will (A minor) tell
I've been around since Jesus
met the wo (G major) man at the well (A minor)
I've (C major) walks these roads ten (A minor) thousand years,
I'm a (C major) ragtime million (E major) aire
(A minor) I am the rake and the ramblin' saint,
the man (G major) from god (A minor) knows where.
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Verse 2
Oh, they (A minor) hung me in Downpatrick, up
near (G major) (A minor) St.Patrick's tomb
But my ghost rose up in the peat fire
smoke toward the (G major) rising of the moon (A minor)
Now as (C major) I drift through your (A minor) villages,
all the (C major) maidens stop (A minor) and stare (E major)
(A minor) There goes old Tom the vagabond,
the man (G major) from god knows (A minor) where.
Verse 3
So its (C major) rise up all you (A minor) ancestors,
(C major) and dance upon your (G major) graves
I've (C major) come to hear your voices now
so maybe (A minor) I'll be saved (E major)
(A minor) Cursed are we who forget the past,
but pray and don't (G major) despair
(A minor) My song is might haunt your dreams tonight,
I'm the man (G major) from god knows (A minor) where
I've slept beneath your bridges near your oil refineries
Verse 4
I've gambled on your (C major)
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 (A minor) 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 (C major)
lines to me
Of the storefront curch and the chain
gang choir; Black sorrow (G major) 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 (C major) Indian drums,
I've heard the bugles blow
Before they re- wrote history, into a
Wild West show
My kin sailed toward America to
(A minor) steal their Indian ground
They passed bill Cody's
ships, European bound
Verse 7
So lock up all your daughters, (E major)
your whiskey and your gold
I have come to claim my bounty,
for the lies that I've been told
And as (A minor) 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 (G major) (A minor)
knows where
The Man from God Knows Where
Tom Russell
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