Standard (EADGBE)

(note: the intro lick uses Cadd9, if you're lazy and don't wanna play the riff you can

add the ninth after defining the chord)

Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet

A sweetheart left behind

Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas

That's where my true love lies

( )

Look for me when the sun-bright swallow

Sings upon the birch bough high

But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils

All a'chew upon your bones so dry

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(Chorus)

But when the sun breaks

To no more bullets in Battle Creek

Then will you make a grave

For I will be home then

 I will be home then

 I will be home then

 I will be home then

Then

(Interlude)

(note: in the same style as the intro)

When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee

Made a seam to hem me in

There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless

 Got my heart right pierced by a pin

( )

 But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas

 All the bellies and the bones and the bile

 No, I lingered here with the blankets barren

 And my own belly big with child

( x2)

(Chorus)

But when the sun breaks

To no more bullets in Battle Creek

Then will you make a grave

For I will be home then

 I will be home then

 I will be home then

 I will be home then

(Bridge)

Stems and bones and stone walls too

Could keep me from you

Skein of skin is all too few

To keep me from you

( )

(note: in the same style as the intro)

 But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted

 Though our skin may not touch skin

Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow

 I will come on the breath of the wind

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