Misc Your Songs - Mike keesler and bob scoyoc - bury my memories
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Tuning: E A D G B E
Written in 2015, updated in 2019 as a straight I, IV, V blues tune. Use the chords you want also played
E, A & B
Bury My Memories
E7I’m goin’ out to the graveyard at the edge of town
A7I said, I’m goin’ out to the graveyard at the edge of E7town
B7 A7 Turn
Gonna dig me a big hole way deep, way deep in the ground.
E7Gonna bury my memories of you so deep
A7I’m gonna bury my memories of you…so dE7eep
B7 A7 Turn
Those memories of you, they, they still make me weep.
E7I’m gonna wear my graveyard suit and tie
A7Gonna wear my graveyard suit and tieE7
B7 A7 Turn
Yeah, to go with your graveyard dress and your lies.
E7Cause the graveyard’s the place where dreams go to die
A7Oh, that graveyard is the place where dreams go to E7die
B7 A7 Turn
Now dreams we wrought together turned out to be lies.
E7I’m goin’ to the churchyard, drop my coffin in that hole
A7I’m goin’ to that churchyard, drop that coffin in the hE7ole
B7 A7 Turn
Oh, that coffin be filled up, filled up with my soul.
E7That coffin gonna be more than three feet thick
A7My coffin gonna be more than three feet thickE7
B7 A7 Turn
To keep me from your brimstone heart and your tricks.
E7It was like goin’ to jail when I married you
A7It was like goin’ to jail when I married yoE7u
B7 A7 Turn
I should have known your love was real bad news.
E7I went to the alter with a gun to my head
A7Went to the alter with that shotgun to my heaE7d
B7 A7 Turn
Oh, I didn’t realize……I was better off dead.
[Outro]
E7I’m goin’ out to the graveyard at the edge of town
A7Dig me that big hole deep in the ground.
B7Gonna bury my memories of you so deep
E7Those memories of you, still make me weep.
Still make me weep, still make me weep, make me weep, OH WEEP (stop E)