Lay Of The Sunflower Chords by Govt Mule Gov't Mule - Lay of the Sunflower (Deepest End, Deep End Vol. 2) (Capo on 3rd fret) G Bb C Dm F C I must leave you for a season Gm C Dm Go out logging hardwood timber F G Bb Hardwood timber that grows so low Bb C Dm In the forest of Fennario F C Tell me what you need to live, love Gm C Dm Do you ask that you might own? F G Bb Take my blue-eyed hound to guard you Bb C Dm I will make my way alone F C Gm I will not return in winter Gm C Dm If I be not back by fall F G Bb Seek me when the small sunflower C Dm Grows above the garden wall ----- C Bb F | Fare you well and I would not weep | F C Dm | Bid you tend your prayers to keep |----Chorus C Bb F | Hill by dale now must I go | C Bb C Dm | To the forest of Fennario | ----- G Bb C Dm (same chords as previous verse) Nine-month blew with sleeted rain And still he came not back again Summoned she the hound to go To seek him in Fennario He came back the fated day To find his lady gone away Made haste to follow in her track Where she could go but not turn back At her side the blue-eyed hound did bay While fast her breath did fade away She cried out: Turn, my love, and go I would not have you see me so G Bb C Dm (instrumental break - same progression as verse) I shall not turn, I shall not yield Oh, selfsame serpent sting my heel That bleeds my ladys blood away Beside the blue-eyed hound to lay Angels sing their souls to sleep Four winds grace their breath to keep Up above yon garden wall Stands the sunflower, straight and tall C Bb F Hill by dale now must I go C Bb C Dm To the forest of Fennario G Bb C Dm (From Deepest End live album/DVD. It would be cool if somebody tabbed the banjo solo for guitar .)
