Whiskeytown - Houses on the hill
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 20:02:15 -0400
From: Christopher Allan Gehrz
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: PRO: w/whiskeytown/houses_on_the_hill.pro
"Houses on the Hill"
Barland Music/Texas Browndog Music (BMI)/Bug Music
By David Ryan Adams and Caitlin Cary
From Whiskeytown's album STRANGER'S ALMANAC (Outpost Records/Mood Food Records)
INTRO: [C F G G C F G G]
VERSE ONE: Well, I Cfound a bunch of letters
They were Fwritten for the fellow
Who Gbroke your momma's heart
And the Cenvelope folds Fsmelled of her ancient perGfume
FI'll bet she didn't Gknow
How to reCspond to forty C/Bblankets of Amsnow
Am/GCaught him out Fwandering aGlone
With no place to Cgo [F C]
CHORUS I: F There were stars in the Csky
There were Chouses on the C/Bhill
There were Ambottles and Am/Gpills
That were Feasy to buy to Gkeep her warm
From the Concoming storm [F C]
VERSE TWO: Well, I found them in the northwest corner of the attic
In a box labeled "Tinsel and Lights"
Didn't know what I was looking for
Maybe just a blanket or artifacts
Eisenhower sent him to war
He kept her picture in his pocket that was closest to his heart
And when he hit shore, it must have been a target
For the gunner-men
CHORUS II: There were stars in the sky
There were bunkers in the hill
And there were caskets to fill where he would lie
Shrouded in the red, white & blue with the stripes
repeat CHORUS I