Chords
The Ash And Clay

Key: D

Introduction:

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             F                         G                     C                           C/B                 Am 
The swing sets are empty like dirt turned the dark of the night
             F                         G                               C                     C/B           Am 
The center of this town it used to whirl in the glow of twilight
                         F                         G                                 C                       F 
It might look like god's away with all the trouble these days
 F           D/F#       G         E             Am         G   F 
We'll come home before the girls are grown
 F                         G                 C 
We're coming home tonight
 F                                   G                                 C                     C/B       Am 
What, oh, have we done to run this country into such a sight
 F                               G                               C                             C/B                 Am 
Stolen from our brothers like we couldn't find a fair enough fight
                           F                               G 
You wait on promise you will say
                 C                                   F 
Won't forsake the ash and clay
 F         D/F#     G         E                 Am       Am/G   F 
Let's come home before the girls are grown
 F                     G               C 
Let's come home to fight
       F                                   G                       C                               C/B           Am 
I know we want whats best for us-i know it has to come at a price
     F                             G                             C                         C/B               Am 
I also know the trouble that you find when you stop being nice
           F                                   G 
You look around you one day
                     C                               F 
What you once knew didn't stay
 F         D/F#     G         E                 Am       Am/G   F 
Let's come home before the girls are grown
 F                     G               C 
Let's come home tonight
 F       G           E             Am         Am/G     F     F#   G     E   Am   Am/G   F        G  C 
Oooh Ooooh Oooooh, Oooooh oooooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh   ooooh
                   F                     G                                     C                     C/B                 Am 
Have you ever asked a man to take your place at the head of the table?
                       F                           G                             C                               C/B                         Am 
You could shed away your shame if in the end You found you simply weren't able
                     F                                     G 
You might find out you could stay
                 C                         F 
On the ash and on the clay
 F       D/F#  G         E                 Am       Am/G   F 
Come on home before the girls are grown
 F               G             C 
Come on home tonight
 F       G           E             Am       Am/G 
Oooh Ooooh Oooooh Oooooh oooooh
 F     D/F#  G         E                 Am       Am/G   F 
Come on home before the girls are grown
 F               G             F       C  C/B  Am  Am/G  F  G  C 
Come on home to fight