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