Key: C
Introduction: F7M C C2 F7M C C2 C F7M C
C F7M
Remember when our songs were just like prayers
C C9 Am F7M
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air
C F7M
Come down, come down sweet reverence
C C9 Am F7M
unto my simple house and ring... and ring
F7M C F7M
Ring like silver, ring like gold
C C9 Am F7M
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
F7M C F7M
Ring like clear day wedding bells
C C9 Am F7M C
Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell... we' ll never tell
Em F7M C F7M C
Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Em F7M C G
Watch the world spinning waves... like machines
C F7M
Now I' ve been crazy, couldn' t you tell?
C C9 Am F7M
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
C F7M
Now I' m covered up in straw, belly up on the table
C C9 Am F7M
Well I drank and sang, and passed in the stable
C F7M
That tall grass grows high and brown
C C9 Am F7M
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
C F7M
and you sent me back to where I roam
C C9 Am F7M
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know... now I know
C F7M
And I ran back to that hollow again
C C9 Am F7M
the moon was just a sliver back then
C F7M
And I ached for my heart like some tin man
C C9 Am F7M C
When it came, oh it beat and it boiled and it rang... oh, it' s ringing
F7M C F7M
Ring like crazy, ring like hell
C C9 Am F7M
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
F7M C F7M
Ring like silver, ring like gold
C C9 Am F7M C
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal
C C9 Am F7M C
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal