Tabbed by: Daysleeper_05

Tuning:Standard

From the "Long Live the King" EP.

Letters with slashes in front of them signify the change of the BASS NOTE of the 
preceding chord. (on the low E and A strings) Hearing the song will help it make sense.

Three fills are repeated throughout the song:

fill 1(intro):
e | ------0---0-----0-0-0-0-0-0--0----- | 
B | ------0---0-----3/5-5-5-5--0----- | 
G | ------0---0------------------------ | 
D | ------2---2------------------------ | 
A | ------2---2------------------------ | 
E | --0-------------------------------- | 

fill 2 (verse fill):
e | ------0-----------0---------------- | 
B | ------0-----------0---------------- | 
G | ------0-----------0---------------- | 
D | ------2-----------2---------------- | 
A | ------2--0h2------2---------------- | 
E | --0------------0------------------- | 

fill 3 (chorus fill):
------------------------------------- | 
B | ----------------------------------- | 
G | ----------0h2---0---------0-------- | 
D | ----0h2---------------0h2---------- | 
A | ----------------------------3------ | 
E | ----------------------------------- | 


Intro:
(Fill 1) x4

Verse 1:
    E5                               A5                    G5
The air all painted pallid grey, the storm was comin' in

D5               /C5    /B5    E5  (fill 2)
Folks were lining out in all directions

E5                              A5                      G5
Me an Holt and Henry Short were pitchin' on the skiff,

D5               /C5    /B5        E5  (fill 2)
Trying to make it home before the night

     B5 /F#5  /B5 /F#5   A5
And the grey waves were rollin',

B5 /F#5 /B5     /F#5  A5
Bold the brave, brave ocean

    G5                     E5 (Fill 1)x2
And rolled us suckers in

Verse 2:

    E5                             A5                     G5
Well I don't keep to goings on, I tend to stick with kin

    D5         /C5     /B5      E5 (Fill 2)
But Watson had it in from the beginning

   E5                                  A5                        G5
He built that house on Chatham bend, a whitewashed knotted pine

D5         /C5     /B5       E5 (Fill 2)
Ninety acres furrowed for the cane

     B5 /F#5  /B5 /F#5     A5
And he drove it down from Georgia

 B5 /F#5  /B5 /F#5   A5
His dad a martyred soldier

       G5                 E5  (Fill 1) /G5
In the war between the States



Chorus:

 A5                 G5     D5  /D5  /C5  /B5
Lord, bring down the flood

 A5           G5    D5
Wash away the blood

    /C5     /B5      E5
And drown these everglades

    /C5     /B5      E5
And put us in our place

B5      /F#5  /B5  /F#5       C5  
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave

   G5                     E5 (Fill 1)x4
We layed him in his grave

Verse 3:

E5                            A5                   G5
Till I'm dust I'll never know why he came ashore

D5                  /C5      /B5        E5 (Fill 2)
With all those killers gathered on the shorelines

E5                              A5                   G5
Kicking holes in ugly mud, with trigger fingers pinched

D5            /C5        /B5        E5  (Fill 2)
A brace of rifles bristled in the wind

B5 /F#5  /B5 /F#5   A5
And we towed his body northbound

 B5 /F#5  /B5  /F#5   A5
And buried him all face down

        G5               E5 (Fill 1)  /G5
With a good view into hell

Chorus:

 A5                 G5     D5 /D5  /C5  /B5
Lord, bring down the flood

 A5           G5    D5
Wash away the blood

    /C5     /B5      E5
And drown these everglades

    /C5     /B5      E5
And put us in our place

B5      /F#5  /B5  /F#5       C5 
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave

   G5                     E5  (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave

  E5                     E5  (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave

 E5                  (Fill 1)x3 E5
We layed him in his gra____ve

End