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Eliza Gilkyson - Death In Arkansas CAPO: 3rd Fret INTRO: F C F I remember how the wood would smell

Just as the last great tree was ^Cfelled Like many that came before

It was used for a table and a door

A ^Fpalette ^Cand a ^Flong hall rack Where hung my great grandfather's ^Chat

A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat A roof and fence and a floor that creaked And a coffin leaning against the wall

When there was a death in Arkan^Fsas ^C ^F ^C

I ^Fliked the wagons and the wheels The wind that knocked us down in the ^Cfields

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 death in Arkan^Fsas

We were ^Bblaid to rest under the sun And we ^Fbreathed our last and it was done And the ^Cair redeemed us and we would learn

That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn

Hands ^Ffolded gently to say goodbye It was just this place underneath the ^Csky

Can you see our bones hiding 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 is a death in Arkan^Fsas

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And a ^Bbquilten patch of new concrete ^FHelps the trucks roll down the street There's a ^CDollar 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 the breaking wall But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call

When there is a death in Arkan^Fsas

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Eliza Gilkyson - Death in arkansas