Woodrow
Woodrow

Woodrow easy guitar chords by Tom Russell

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    • Intro 1







    Verse 1
    When 
    people 
    twist 
    your 
    words, 
    Woodrow, 
    ah, 
    they'll 
    twist 
    at 
    every 
    whim 

    It's 
    thug
    s 
    that 
    run 
    the 
    unions 
    now 

    and 
    use 
    your 
    songs 
    like 
    hymns 

    Verse 2
    Once, 
    your 
    mu
    sic 
    danced 
    on 
    women's 

    thighs 
    and 
    the 
    arch 
    of 
    a 
    hobo's 
    brow 

    Aw, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie 
    look 
    what 
    they 
    done 

    to 
    your 
    brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    Oh, 
    the 
    trains 
    leave 
    every 
    morning, 

    some 
    go 
    east 
    and 
    some 
    go 
    west 

    And 
    the clacking 
    of 
    the 
    iron 
    is 

    the sound 
    you 
    love 
    the be
    st 

    It's 
    the 
    great 
    escape 
    from 
    railroad 
    bulls 

    and 
    the Coney 
    Island 
    girls 

    Aw, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie, 
    look 
    what 
    we 
    done 

    to your 
    brown 
    eyed 
    boy 
    with 
    curls 

    Sing 
    the truth, 
    scream 
    it 
    loud 

    Verse 3

    Aw, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie, 

    look 
    what 
    they 
    done 
    to 
    your brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    All 
    those 
    boxcars full 
    of 
    Chinese 
    junk, 

    the 
    ca
    boose 
    has 
    been 
    junk 
    piled 

    And 
    we're 
    all 
    buying 
    groceries 
    now 
    from 

    men 
    with 
    crooked 
    smiles 

    You were 
    a drunken, 

    wild 
    misogyneer and 
    your 
    politics 
    were 
    crude 

    As 
    you sat 
    home 
    writing 
    nurs
    ery 

    rhymes 
    and 
    drawing 
    women 
    nude 

    Verse 4

    And 
    all 
    those 
    politicians 
    breaths 
    stink 
    bad, 

    be 
    they 
    left 
    or be 
    they 
    right 

    And 
    the ones 
    who 
    play 
    with 
    rhetoric 

    are not 
    the ones 
    to 
    fight 

    Don't 
    go 
    com
    ing 
    'round 
    here, 
    Woodrow, 

    they'll 
    stretch 
    you 
    from 
    a 
    rope 

    And 
    your 
    corpse 
    won't 
    ever 
    find 
    a 
    bar 

    where 
    a man 
    can 
    drink 
    and 
    smoke 

    Repeat 
    Sing 
    the truth, 
    scream 
    it 
    loud 

    Verse 5

    Aw, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie, 
    look 
    what 
    they 
    done 

    to your 
    brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    Instru
    mental 

    () 

    Verse 6
    Did 
    you 
    hear 
    the 
    screen 
    door 
    slam, 
    Ma, 

    Woodrow's 
    gone 
    again 

    He's 
    writ
    in' 
    obscene 
    letters 
    now, 

    the Feds 
    might 
    bring 
    him 
    in 

    But 
    every 
    song 
    he 
    ever 
    wrote 
    is 

    hangin' 
    on 
    the 
    breeze 

    With 
    the laundry 
    in 
    the 
    Guthrie 
    yard 

    full 
    of Huntington's 
    dis
    ease 

    So, 
    Woodrow, 
    rest 
    in peace, 
    old 
    pal, 

    there 
    ain't 
    nothin' 
    for 
    you 
    here 

    We're 
    in 
    the scrub 
    oak 
    country 
    now, 

    the land 
    of 
    dread 
    an
    ' 
    fear 

    And 
    whitey's 
    in 
    the 
    wood 
    pile 
    and 

    the writing's 
    on 
    the wall 

    But 
    your 
    ring 
    of 
    truth 
    still 
    echoes 
    down 

    the Greystone 
    clinic 
    hall 

    Repeat 
    Sing 
    the truth, 
    scream 
    it 
    loud 

    Verse 7

    Aw, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie, 

    look 
    what 
    they 
    done 
    to 
    your 
    brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    So 
    here's 
    to 
    all 
    outsiders, 

    all 
    the 
    ones 
    who could 
    not 
    fit 

    The troubadour, 
    the 
    prisoners, 

    the drunken 
    Indi
    an 

    Ah, 
    the 
    cir
    cus 
    freaks, 

    the wounded 
    lovers 
    will 
    make 
    it 
    through 
    somehow 

    Ah, 
    Mrs. 
    Guthrie, 

    we 
    are 
    ridin' 
    blind 
    with 
    your 
    brown 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    Sing 
    the truth 
    scream 
    it 
    loud 

    Ah, 
    Mr
    s. 
    Guthrie, 

    look 
    what 
    we 
    done 
    to 
    your 
    brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

    Sing 
    the truth, 
    scream 
    it 
    loud 

    Ah, 
    Mr
    s. 
    Guthrie, 

    look 
    what 
    we 
    done 
    to your 
    brown- 
    eyed 
    baby 
    now 

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