Key: C
Introduction:
C C/B Am
Almost home
D Am
When I missed the bottom stair
D Am
You were braiding your gray hair
C Em/B G
It had grown so long
C Em/B G
Since I'd been gone
C C/B Am
And the perfect girls
D Am
By the pool, they would protest
D Am
The cross around their necks
C Em/B G
But our sons were overseas
C Em/B G C C/B Am
And we all know about the hive and the honeybees
C C/B Am
Almost home
D Am
With an olive branch and a dove
D Am
You were beating on a Persian rug
C Em/B G
With your bible and your wedding band
C Em/B G
Both hidden on the TV stand
C C/B Am
When a cruel wind blew,
D Am
Every city father fell
D Am
Off the county carousel
C Em/B G
While the dogs were eating snow
C Em/B G C C/B C/A G
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes
C C/B Am
Almost home
D Am
And got lost on our new street
D Am
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
C Em/B G
So the dogs all went unfed,
C Em/B G
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
C C/B Am
And the cops couldn't care
D Am
When that crackhead built a boat
D Am
And said, "Please, before I go,
C Em/B G
May our only honored bond
C Em/B G F9
Be the kinship of the kids in the riot squad"