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CAPO 1
VERSE 1:
SOL RE
I am an orphan, on God's highway
SOL DO
But I'll share my troubles, if you go my way
SOL RE SOL DO
I have no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
SOL RE SOL
I am an orphan girl
VERSE 2:
I have had friendships, pure and golden
But the ties of kinship, I have not know them
I know no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
I am an orphan girl
VERSE 3:
But when he calls me, I will be able
To meet my family, at God's table
I'll meet my mother, my father, my sister, my brother
No more an orphan girl
VERSE 4:
Blessed savior, make me willing
And walk beside me, until I'm with them
Be my mother, my father, my sister, my brother
I am an orphan girl
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
MIm DO
We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule
SI7 MIm
From the Alabama trust
MIm DO
For half of the cotton and a third of the corn
SI7 MIm
We get a handful of dust
CHORUS
DO SOL RE MIm
We cannot have all things to please us, no matter how we try
DO SOL RE MIm DO RE MIm
Until we've all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why
VERSE 2:
I had a daughter called her Annabelle
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
Didn't want to ever hear her cry
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
When I'm dead and buried I'll take a hard life of tears
From every day I've ever known
Anna's in the churchyard she got no life at all
She only got these words on a stone
(CHORUS)
VERSE 1:
RE
I've got an old V - 8, from the year I was born
SOL FA MIm7
Don't look like much, just a flat black Ford
RE
But the engine's clean, I could paint her some day
SOL FA MIm7
But most of the time, I think I like her this way
CHORUS
SOL
Don't turn no heads, don't catch no eye
RE SIb FA MIm7 RE
I'm just a wind on the road, gonna pass you by
VERSE 2:
Well I used to talk tough, and I used to get loud
Want to paint my name, all over this town
But folks lined up, just to dog my day
Now if I stay quiet, they stay out of my way
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
I got a brand new plan, gonna help myself
'Cause it's the fat man's turn, gonna share the wealth
Put the money in the bag, and keep your hands in sight
Turn around, count to ten, I'll go back into the night
(CHORUS)
CODA:
Don't call for help, don't scream, don't cry
Just a wind on the road, gonna pass you by.
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
SOL
Oh the night came undone like a party dress
RE
And fell at her feet in a beautiful mess
SOL DO
The smoke and the whiskey came home in her curls
SOL RE SOL RE
And they crept through the dreams of the barroom girls
VERSE 2:
Well she tosses and turns because the sun is unkind
And the heat of the day is coming in thru the blinds
But leave all the blue skies for the rest of the world
Because the neon will shine for the barroom girls
BRIDGE:
RE SOL
Oh the barroom girls go by your side
LA RE
Like the ponies who pass on a carousel ride
SOL DO
And all of the colors go 'round in a swirl
SOL RE SOL RE
When you dance in the arms of the barroom girls
VERSE 3:
Now she rolls to her feet when she can't sleep no more
And looks at her clothes lying out on the floor
Last night's spangles and yesterday's pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
Last night's spangles and yesterday's pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
DO SOL DO
A long time ago I left my home
FA DO
For a job in the fruit trees
DO SOL DO
But I missed those hills with the windy pines
FA DO
For their song seemed to suit me
VERSE 2:
DO SOL DO
So I sent my wages to my home
FA DO
And said we'd soon be together
DO SOL DO
For the next good crop would pay my way
FA DO
And I would come home forever
CHORUS
LAm SOL FA SOL DO
One more dime to show for my day
LAm SOL FA SOL DO
One more dollar and I'm on my way
LAm SOL FA SOL DO
When I reach those hills, boys, I'll never roam
LAm SOL FA SOL DO
One more dollar and I'm going home
VERSE 3:
No work said the boss at the bunk house door,
There's a freeze on the branches,
So when the dice came out at the bar downtown,
I rolled and I took my chances
(CHORUS)
VERSE 4:
A long time ago I left my home
Just a boy passing twenty
Could you spare a coin and a Christian prayer
For my luck has turned against me
(CHORUS)
One more dollar, boys I'm going home
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
SOL RE
When I cross over, I will shout and sing
SOL RE DO SOL
I will know my savior, by the mark where the nails have been
CHORUS
SOL
By the mark where the nails have been
RE SOL
By the sign upon his precious skin
SOL
I will know my savior when I come to him
RE DO SOL
By the mark where the nails have been
VERSE 2:
A man of riches, may claim a crown of jewels
But the king of heaven, can be told from the prince of fools
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
On Calvary Mountain, where they made him suffer so
All my sin was paid for, a long, long time ago
(CHORUS)
VERSE 4:
I will know my savior when I come to him
By the mark where the nails have been
CAPO 1
VERSE 1:
SOL RE
Paper wings, all torn and bent
SOL
But you made me feel like they were heaven sent
SOL RE
Paper wings, not real at all
SOL
But they took me high enough to really fall
DO SOL
Your paper kisses, faded too soon
LA RE
Just like a paper rose, beneath a paper moon
SOL DO
Paper wings, paper wings
RE SOL
Oh how could I expect to fly with only paper wings
BRIDGE:
DO SOL
Angels singing, didn't you hear
LA RE
If only I'd listened close, when they whispered in my ear
CODA:
SOL DO
Paper wings, paper wings
RE SOL
Oh how could I expect to fly with only paper wings
RE SOL
I tried to fly but found that I had only paper wings
VERSE 1:
RE SOL
Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb
RE LA
No gold plated sign, in a marble pillared room
RE SOL
The only thing I want, when they lay me in the ground
RE LA RE
When I die tear my stillhouse down
CHORUS
SOL
Oh tear my stillhouse down, let it go to rust
RE
Don't leave no trace of the hiding place, where I made that evil stuff
SOL
For all my time and money, no profit did I see
RE LA RE
That old copper kettle was the death of me
VERSE 2:
When I was a child, way back in the hills
I laughed at the men, who tended those stills
But that old mountain shine, it caught me somehow
When I die tear my stillhouse down
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
Oh tell all your children, that Hell ain't no dream
'Cause Satan he lives, in my whiskey machine
And in my time of dying, I know where I'm bound
So when I die tear my stillhouse down
(CHORUS)
ACONY MUSIC (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 9 from "REVIVAL" (ALMO, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 7
VERSE 1:
DO
The fairest bloom the mountain knows
Is not an iris or a wild rose
FA DO
But the little flower of which I'll tell
SOL DO
Known as the brave acony bell
VERSE 2:
Just a simple flower so small and plain
With a pearly hue and a little known name
But the yellow birds sing when they see it bloom
For they know that spring is coming soon
VERSE 3:
Well it makes its home mid the rocks and the rills
Where the snows lie deep on the windy hills
And it tells the world Why should I wait
This ice and snow is gonna melt away.
VERSE 4:
And so I'll sing that yellow bird's song
For the troubled times will soon be gone
ONLY ONE AND ONLY (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 10 from "REVIVAL" (ALMO, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 3
VERSE 1:
DO FA
There's a hundred bluebirds, up above the clouds
SOL DO
Putting all the color in the sky
DO FA
And twice as many tear drops, there to wash it down
SOL DO
Every one's another lullaby
CHORUS
SOL DO
But there's only one and only
SOL FA SOL
Who could go and leave me lonely
VERSE 2:
There's a world of trouble, trying to take its turn
I can hear it shaking underground
And half a dozen lessons, I might never learn
Not until them troubles come around
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
There's a mile of blacktop, where the road begins
It takes a time or two to recognize
Growing at the roadside, scattered by the wind
Are everybody's unsaid sad goobyes
(CHORUS)
CODA:
You're the only one and only
Why'd you go and leave me lonely
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