Rock Salt and Nails

Traditional
As Performed by Druha Trava

V1
                    E (022100@1)    A (x02220@1)                    EBy (022100@1)the banks of the river, where the willows hang down
                       C#m (x13321@4)  A (x02220@1)                EAnd (022100@1)the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
             C#m (x13321@4)  A (x02220@1)                   EDown (022100@1)in the hollow, where the waters run cold
                     A (x02220@1)                            EIt (022100@1)was there I first listened to the lies that she told.

V2
                     A (x02220@1)                    E (022100@1) scale run
Now I lay on my bed and I can see her sweet face
             C#m (x13321@4)   A (x02220@1)           EThe (022100@1)past I remember, time can not erase
               C#m (x13321@4)     A (x02220@1)                EThe (022100@1)letter you wrote me, it was written in shame
                     A (x02220@1)                        EAnd (022100@1)I know that your conscience still echoes my name

V3
                      E (022100@1)   A (x02220@1)              E (022100@1)                        Now the nights 
so long, your sorrows run deep
               C#m (x13321@4)   A (x02220@1)                  EAnd (022100@1)nothing is worse, than a night without sleep
               C#m (x13321@4)A (x02220@1)               EI'll (022100@1)walk out alone and look at the sky
                  A (x02220@1)             ETo (022100@1)empty to sing, to lonesome to cry

V4
                        E (022100@1)     A (x02220@1)                 EIf (022100@1)the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were Thrushes
                  C#m (x13321@4)   A (x02220@1)               EI'd (022100@1)lie there for hours, in the chilly cold marshes
                   C#m (x13321@4)      A (x02220@1)               EIf (022100@1)the ladies were squirrels, with a high bushy tails
                   A (x02220@1)                    EI'd (022100@1)fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails
E A E C#m A E C#m EA E

Druha Trava (Second Grass) is a Czeck blugrass band with some international success. See 
at www.druhatrava.com/