Key: E
Introduction:
C G/C Am Em C
Older brother, restless soul, lie down.
C G/C Am Em C
Lie for a while with your ear against the earth.
C G/C Am Em C
You can hear your sister sleep talking,
G/C Am Em C
Say 'you're hair is long but not long enough to reach
C G C G
Home to me, But your beard, Someday might be.
Em7 C9 G
And she'll wake up in a cold sweat on the floor
Em7 C9 G
Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four
Em7 C9 G Em7
And beside a jar of two cent coins that are no good no more
C9 G
She'll lay it aside
(Riff 1 - 2x)
C G/C Am Em C
Older father, weary soul, you'll drive
G/C Am Em C
Back to the home you made on the mountainside
G/C Am Em C
With that ugly, terrible thing
G/C Am
Those papers for divorce
Em C
And a lonely ring,
G
A lonely ring
C
Sit on your porch
G
And pluck your strings
Bridge 2
Em7 C9 G
Oh, and you'll find somebody you can blame
Em7 C9 G
And you'll follow the creek that runs out into the sea
Em7 C9 G
And you'll find the peace of the Lord.
(Riff 1 - 2x)
C G/C Am Em C
Grandfather, weary soul, you'll fly
G/C Am Em C
Over your life once more before you die
G/C Am Em
Since our grandma passed away
C G/C Am Em C
You've waited for forever and a day
G
Just to die,
C
And someday soon
G
You will die
Em7 C9 G
It was the only woman you ever loved
Em7 C9 G
That got burnt by the sun too often when she was young
Em7 C9 G
And the cancer spread and it ran into her body and her blood
Em7 C9 G
And there's nothing you can do about it now