Key: G minor
Intro 1
G#m
B
F#
E
G#m
B
A
B
G#m
E
G
Gdim
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
Verse 1
F#
I've got a man
G#m
C#
F#
B
E
B
But he just won't treat me right
F#
B
D#m
He knocked me silly with a rock
B
F#
D#m
ing chair
Verse 2
D
F#
I stayed out one night
B
E
But he done got my coat
B
F#
G#m
'Cause he told me to my face
F#
Ddim
F#
And she's done taken my place
B
C#
D
Won't somebody
Verse 3
D#m
open
E
F#
G#m
up his eye s?
B
F#
B
F#
'Cause that is graveyard words
B
C#
Ddim
D#m
E
And I'll show him be fore
B
D#m
he dies
F#
C#
F#
That them is graveyard words
C#
I can
Verse 4
D#m
D#
putting flowers on doors
D#m
G#m
he never come back no more
F#
B
E
Tell him that I'll fix him sure as
C#
A#
two and two is four
B
F#
B
F#
'Cause them is graveyard words
B
F#
D#m
Go and tell him that he's
Verse 5
E
B
slowly dying
G#m
C#
Dm
D#m
words
B
G#m
A#
Please don't let me lose
D#m
B
G#m
B
my rightful mind
Verse 6
D#
G#m
My razor's sharpened too
He'll think the world done fell on him
When my dirty work is through
F#
B
G#m
Tell him that I'll do just
E
G
what I said I'd do
B
F#
B
Oh them is graveyard words
G#m
F#
G#m
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