Long bed from Kenya

Capo 4th fret
 
    C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)                Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)See the Redtail on her perch upon the fencepost,
C (x32010@1)                              G (320003@1)   Highway 40 roll on by.
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)                     Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)   If I could reach across the distance for a moment,
C (x32010@1)                    G (320003@1)                       C (x32010@1)   I'd steal the sadness from her eyes.
    C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1)                  Am (x02210@1)                      F2. (133211@1)    It's February and the weather's clear for driving,
C (x32010@1)                                                G (320003@1)   how I've missed your Tennessee.
C (x32010@1)                      G (320003@1)                       Am (x02210@1)                        F (133211@1)   The morning sun just stole the shadows from the mountains,
C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)                     C (x32010@1)   and the years away from me.
 
Chorus
G (320003@1)                                        F (133211@1)                    C (x32010@1)   Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G (320003@1)                    E (022100@1)                     Am (x02210@1)   but you still look the same to me.
F (133211@1)                 G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)   And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)                  C (x32010@1)     
    as the sky in Tennessee.

+ instrumental
 
   C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)                   Am (x02210@1)            F (133211@1)This old farm is ne'er so big as I remember,
C (x32010@1)                                                   G (320003@1)   now the fields are burned and brown.
C (x32010@1)                    G (320003@1)                    Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)   The Pigeon River's running deeper than December,
C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)   where the Winter snows lay down.
                     C (x32010@1)                     - G (320003@1)            Am (x02210@1)                          FHow (133211@1)you love your house       and this long bed sent from Kenya,
                  C (x32010@1)                                                               G (320003@1)   and the telling of the story of the woman you met there.
                   C (x32010@1)                       - G (320003@1)               Am (x02210@1)                 F (133211@1)   She's a darkhaired beauty    -   my hair's only growing thinner,
C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)                C (x32010@1)   and my threads a little bare.
 
 
 
G (320003@1)                                        F (133211@1)                    C (x32010@1)   Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G (320003@1)                    E (022100@1)                     Am (x02210@1)   but you still look the same to me.
F (133211@1)                 G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)   And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)                  C (x32010@1)   as the sky in Tennessee.

instrumental
 
   C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)                      Am (x02210@1)                 FIn (133211@1)the silence hear the years, we dare not speak of,
C (x32010@1)                                       G (320003@1)   let this arrow pass on through.
C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                     Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)   And I'll be gone before my heart has met resistance,
C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)                        C (x32010@1)   like you hoped that I would do.

C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)        Am (x02210@1)        FSee (133211@1)the Redtail turn her wing toward the mountain,
C (x32010@1)                                                G (320003@1)   God there's sunlight in your smile.
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)               Am (x02210@1)          F (133211@1)   If I could reach across the distance for a moment,
C (x32010@1)                      G (320003@1)                       C (x32010@1)   I'd steal her memory from your eyes.
 
G (320003@1)                       F (133211@1)                  C (x32010@1)   Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able,
G (320003@1)                    E (022100@1)                     Am (x02210@1)   but you still look the same to me.
F (133211@1)                 G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)                  Am (x02210@1)   And your eyes are just as blue across the table,
C.                  G (320003@1)                 CThan (x32010@1)the sky in Tennessee (bis)