---------------------------------------------------------------------------- White Crosses - Edwin McCain ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Kevin Fortier Email: hey_man2000@hotmail.com Tuning: EADGBe, Capo 1 G (320033) Cadd9 (x32033) Em7/G (022033) Em7 (022030) Dsus2 (x00320) Dsus4 (x00233) A7Sus4 (x02233) Asus4 (x02230) Gadd9 (x20233) Gmaj9 (200033) 1/2 = half a beat 1/4 = one quarter of a beat 3/4 = three quarters of a beat Intro 1/4 1/4 2/4 Cadd9 - Dsus2 - G - Gmaj9 - Em7/G 1/4 2/4 1/4 Cadd9 - Dsus2 - A7Sus4 - Gadd9 - Cadd9 - Dsus2 Verse G Cadd9 Well I packed all of my things into this blanket Em7/G Dsus2 To call this year to earn coyotes fill Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2 And took my first steps into this corridor of death Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 If I’m lucky I will make it to a drain Em7/G Dsus2 With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain Em7 Dsus2 It’s the only the way we will quench our thirst Chorus Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses G Gmaj9 Em7/G Growing in the California sand Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses Cadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7/G We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand Verse G Cadd9 If we make it past the border, we will scatter Em7/G Dsus2 Vanish just like smoke in autumn wind Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 I will run until my color will not matter Em7 Dsus2 Hopin’ I can find some work or possibly a friend Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 There are others who have made it here Em7/G Dsus2 They will show me how to find a job and a place to lay my head Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my children Em7 Dsus2 For there are 5 others in line for my bed Chorus Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses G Gmaj9 Em7/G Growing in the California sand Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses Cadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7/G We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand G Cadd9 I will gladly pick your peaches or clean your hotel rooms Em7/G Dsus2 I will do the jobs American won’t do A7Sus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 With their cell phones to their heads and $700 dollar shoes Em7 Dsus2 Dsus2 I will risk my life ‘cause it’s all I have to lose G Cadd9 Let the devil in the mountains promise me a ride Em7 Dsus2 Found an 18 wheeler and put all of us inside Asus4 Cadd9 And just outside of victory, 19 of us died Em7 Dsus2 None of our bodies hit the floor Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 And so my wife she still wonders when I’m coming home Em7 Dsus2 The riches that I promised her for leaving her alone Asus4 Gadd9 Cadd9 I said that I would send her all that I could save Em7 Dsus2 But I ended up in California in an unknown grave Chorus Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses G Gmaj9 Em7/G Growing in the California sand Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses Cadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7/G We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses G Gmaj9 Em7/G Growing in the California sand Cadd9 Dsus4 In these gardens of white crosses Cadd9 Gadd9 Cadd9 Dsus2 Em7/G We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand 3/4 1/4 3/4 1/4 Em7/G - Cadd9 - G - Cadd9 (reapeat that fading out.) Hope you enjoy! Any comments/questions email me.