Capo: 2

Augie March – The Cold Acre Capo 2 Standard Tuning INTRO (on piano) Cmaj7 Bm e|---------|---------| B|-----1---|-----0---| G|---2---2-|---0---0-|(repeat x2) D|-3-------|-2-------| A|---------|---------| E|---------|---------| Cmaj7-Bm (repeat x2)

There's a ^Cmaj7place I've been told, and when I grow old I may ^Bmgo there, I've been ^Cmaj7told that my family's bones may lie under the ^Bmsnow there, And with my little ^Dbag, and with my little ^Bmdog, Who ^Csleeps on my chest when he can't find a hole in a ^Dlog, And when I ^Bmgo, my dog will ^Cmaj7know

to leave his old fellow and find a new pillow,

^Dfar from the chill of the cold acre. Cmaj7|Bm

Now there's a ^Cmaj7Hillydale here and a Lilydale there where there's ^Bmjoy in the living, in voices that ring in the ^Cmaj7air ^BmI'd stay there but sooner or later I'd have to ^Dgo, where I don't ^Bmknow, but when a ^Cdog knows it's on him he doesn't ask why he just ^Dgoes, And when I ^Bmgo my bones will ^Cknow,

to pick up and follow the wagon that rolls

on the ^Dcold acre... My heart is a ^Dcold acre, in my chest is ^Bma cold acre, I don't ^Cgrow any good anymore though I've seeded my ^Dsoul with all kinds of love, that it aches so...

Cmaj7-Bm (repeat x2) SOLO C-Em-F-G-Em-F--G-

Though I ^Cmaj7wake from them mouthing they leave me not able to ^Bmtalk, These ^Cmaj7dreams are not nightmares but realms I've been choosing to ^Bmwalk, With my little ^Dbag, and with my little ^Bmdog, Who ^Crests on my stomach and barks at the oncoming ^Dfog, O but when I ^Bmgo, with my lot in ^Ctow, Like a vampire carry my piece of the earth from th^De place of my death to the plots of my birth...

My heart is a^D cold acre, in my chest is ^Bma cold acre, I don't ^Cgrow any good anymore though I've seeded my ^Dsoul with all kinds of love that don't grow in a ^Dcold acre, nothing grows in ^Bma cold acre, I don't ^Cknow any good anymore from the bad ^D except there's one that you have and one that you had, O ^Bmgrow, grow, grow, grow, ^Cgrow, And plant me in the only place I ^Dknow, That's the Cold Acre.

Cmaj7-Bm (repeat x8)

Augie March - The cold acre