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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