Death In Arkansas Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D]
[G]

[Verse 1]
[G]I remember how the
wood would smell
Just as the last great tree was [D]felled
Like many that came before
It was used for table and a door
A [G]palette [D]an [G]d a long hall rack
Hung my great grandfather's [D]hat
A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat
A roof and fence and a floor
that creaked

[Verse 2]
And a [D]coffin leanin against the wall
When there was a death in
[G]Arkansas

[Interlude 1]
[D][G][D]
I [G]liked the

[Verse 3]
wagons and the wheels
The wind that knocked us
down in the [D]fields
And the girls with the
southern drawl
And those that came before were the
pictures on the wall
And the lone dogs howled and the
crows would caw
When there was a [G]death
in [D]Arkansas[G]

[Verse 4]
We were [C]laid to rest out under the sun
And we [G]breathed our last
And it was done
And the [D]air redeemed us
and we would learn
That a life was hallowed
and we wouldn't burn

[Verse 5]
Hands [G]folded gently to say goodbye
It was just this place
underneath [D]the sky
Do you see our bones hidin like a toad
In the old red dirt that is now a road
Beneath the sign that blinks
off on
And a shopping mall where the
house is gone
Forgetting that a soul may call
When there [Am]is a de[Em]ath in A[G]rkansas[D]
[G][D][G]

[Interlude 2]
[D][G]
[D][G][D][G]

[Verse 6]
[C]And a quilten patch of new concrete
[G]Helps the trucks roll down the street
There's a [D]Dollar Store by the
setting sun
And a sign on the church says His Will is Done
I can't see the birds
or find the fields
That hold my bones beneath the wheels
And a mother worries that her
son won't call
And a tv stares at a blinking wall
But the lone dogs howl
and the crows still call
When there is a [Em]death in [D]Arkansas[G]
[D]

[Outro 1]
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