Capo 2

      F5     Cadd2
e | ----0------------0---------------------------------------------------------- | 
B | ---1-------------1---------------------------------------------------------- | 
G | ---2-------------0---------------------------------------------------------- | 
D | ---3-------------0---------------------------------------------------------- | 
A | ---x-------------2---------------------------------------------------------- | 
E | ---x-------------x---------------------------------------------------------- | 


Intro:  F5   C5   Cadd2   F5   C5    
Cadd2     C5   F5    C5

Verse 1
C5                                      F5
Remember when our songs were just like prayers.
        C5            Cadd2            A5           F5
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
C5                        F5
Come down come down sweet reverence,
    C5          Cadd2            A5                   F5
unto my simple house and ring...and ring.

Chorus
F5              C5          F5
Ring like silver, ring like gold
         C5             Cadd2               A5   F5
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
F5                    C5            F5
Ring like clear day wedding bells
              C5              Cadd2            A5      F5           C5
Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell...we'll never tell.

Bridge
E5                  F5            C5      F5          C5
Come to me clear and cold on some sea
E5                      F5         C5            G5
Watch the world spinning waves...like machines

Verse 2
Now I,ve been crazy couldn't you tell
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell
Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table
Well and sang and drank, and passed in the stable.

Bridge Instrumental

Verse 3
That tall grass grows high and brown,
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
and you sent me back to where I roam
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know...now I know

Verse 4
and I ran back to that hollow again
The moon was just a sliver back then
and I ached for my hear like some tin man
When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang...it's ringing

Chorus
Ring like crazy, ring like hell
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
Ring like silver, ring like gold
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.