Chords
St Louis Elegy

Key: B

Introduction:  B  

difficulty
very easy |||||
 B                           D 
I look at the sky
                       E                           B 
I see an airplane as it flies
                         B                                       D 
Is this the way they said Jesus came?
                                   E 
Gone through St Louis
                         B 
Gone straightaway
                                 E                             B 
And I hear the winter will cut you quick
                               E                                             B 
If tears were liquor Id have drunk myself sick
 B                           D 
Woman are you home
                           E                             B 
A house of cards a frame of bones
               B                       D 
Here I am earthly bound
                     E                               B 
Said Hallelujah Im going down
                               E                           B 
And the river Jordan is deep and wide
                               E                                             B 
I think I see forever across on the other side
 B                           D 
I look at the sky
                     E                             B 
I see a nightbird as it flies
 B                 D                               E 
Over the old bent cherry trees
                               B 
Shivering in a row
                               E                             B 
Down here the winter will cut you quick
                                   E                                             B 
These tears are liquor and Ive drunk myself sick
                                   E                             B 
And the dead of winter will cut you quick
                                   E                                             B 
These tears are liquor and Ive drunk myself sick