The Cold Acre Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Am]There's a

[Verse 1]
place I've been [F]told
And when I grow old I may
[Am]go t[Em]here
I've been [F]told [Am]that my [F]family's bones
May lie under [Am]the snow there
With my [Em]little bag,

[Verse 2]
[C]
with my little [Em]dog
[F]Who sleeps on my chest
When he can't find a hole in [G]a log

[Verse 3]
When I [Em]go, my dog will k[F]now
To leave his old fellow
and find a new pillow
[G]Far from the chill of the cold acre

[Verse 4]
[F]Now [Am]there's a Hi[F]llydale here
and a Lilydale there
Where [Am]there's joy in the living,
voices that [Em]ring in the [F]air[Am][F]
[Am]I'd stay there but sooner or
[Em]later I'd have [G]to go
[C]

[Verse 5]
Where I don't [Em]know but when
[F]a dog knows it's on him
He doesn't ask why he just [G]goes,
when I [Em]go my bones w[F]ill know
To pick up and follow the wagon
that rolls on [G]the cold acre

[Verse 6]
My heart is a [C]cold acre and
my chest is a [Em]cold acre
I don't [F]grow any good anymore
though I've seeded my [G]soul

[Interlude 1]
With all kinds of love, that it aches so
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[Verse 7]
Though I [Am]wake [F]from them mouthing
They leave me [Am]not able to talk
All these [F]dreams [Am]are not n[F]ightmares
But realms I've been choos[Am]ing to walk
[Em]With my little bag,

[Verse 8]
[C]with my little dog[Em]
Who [F]rests on my stomach and
barks at the oncom[G]ing fog
O but when I [Em]go with my lot in t[F]ow
Like a vampire carry my piece in the earth
To [G]the place of my death to
the plots of my birth

[Verse 9]
My heart is a [C]cold acre,
in my chest is [Em]a cold acre
I don't [F]grow any good anymore
though I've seeded my [G]soul
With all kinds of love that don't
[Am]grow [G]in a [C]cold acre

[Verse 10]
Nothing's [Em]cold acre in a cold acre
I don't [F]grow any good
anymore from the bad
Except there's [G]one that you have,
one that you had
O [Em]grow, grow, grow, grow, [F]grow
And plant me in the only place [G]I know that's the cold acre

[Outro 1]
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