The Truth Comes Out Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Dmthe truth comes out as the fire burns low

CIt comes to light as only embers glow

A♯the whiskey talks, the west wind moans in the nDmight C

Dmthe deadfall's gathered and the branches are cut

Ckindling crackles and the smoke curls up

A♯the small sticks catch then the bigger stuff will burDmn C

chinook dies down as the dark descends

pine has burned, the ash has cleansed

the message smolders, is lost, but finally sent

connie says she's never seen the cougars so bold

they're comin in the yard and they're stealin young colts

they drag em in the brush with the claws sunk in their nose

the weather's been funny thirty years or so

the winters got warm, not as much snow

hear the big cats comin cuz there's nowhere left to go

you gotta look out for bear when you’re fishing on lee’s creek

they’ll come round the bend and they’ll make your knees weak

there’s grizzlies where there was no grizzly bears before

 BREAK Dm C A♯ Dm C X2

half heard voices from the ghosts, from the graves

the grandfathers tell us at the mouths of the caves

only old chiefs older than jesus can save us now, if we're lucky

white man light a big fire, stay cold

the red man's warmer, but the old man's old

A♯the antelope seeks the buffalo in the nigDmht

A♯the antelope mourns the buffalo in the niFght C Am Dm

you gotta look out for bear when you’re fishing on lee’s creek

they’ll come round the bend and they’ll make your knees weak

there’s grizzlies where there was no grizzly bears before

Dmthe truth comes out as the fire burns low

CIt comes to light as only embers glow

A♯the antelope mourns the buffalo in the nDmight C A♯ Dm