• Song:

    Sins Of My Father

  • Artist:

    Tom Waits

From the album REAL GONE, I know it's a pretty simple tab, but might help someone 

  Hope you enjoy and rate it
                                    - flatwound -

                        SINS OF THE FATHER   
                      **** CAPO 1st FRET ****

   ALT CHORD SHAPES ALSO USING CAPO 1st FRET :Am = 577555,Dm = X57765, E7 = 07675X



    Am                          Am
    God said don't give me your tin horn prayers
         Am                        Am
    And don't buy roses from the street down there
     Dm                      Dm
    Took it all and took the dirt road home
      Am                        Am
    Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
     E7                       Am
    Night is falling like a bloody axe
     E7                       Am
    Lies and rumours and the wind at my back
     E7                 Am
    Hand on the wheel, Gravel on the road
              E7               E7
    Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold

              Am                                    Am                  E7
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
              Am                                E7      Am
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond

    Am                          Am
    Birds cry a warning from a hidden branch
      Am                        Am
    Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
        Dm                            Dm
    I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
           Am                        Am
    Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
         E7                   Am
    The world's not easy the blind man said
     E7                   Am
    Turns on nothing but money and dread
     E7                          Am
    Dogs been scratching at the door all night
     E7                                  E7
    Long necked birds flying out of the moonlight

              Am                                    Am                  E7
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
              Am                                E7      Am    Am  E7     Am
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother,  Down to the pond, Down to the pond

     Am                           Am
    Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
         Am                          Am
    The star spangled glitter of his one good eye
       Dm                     Dm
    Everybody knows that the game was rigged
      Am                              Am
    Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
     E7                    Am
    Dark town alleys been hiding you
     E7                         Am
    Long bell tolling is your Waterloo
    E7       Am
    Oh baby what can you do
              E7                           E7
    Does the light of God blind you,   Or lead the way home for you

              Am                                     Am                  E7
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
              Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7       Am
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to  the pond

   INST: AS VERSE

              Am                                     Am                  E7
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
              Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7       Am
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to  the pond

     Am                  Am
    God almighty for righteousness sake
     Am                 Am
    Humilation of our fallen state
      Dm                    Dm
    Written in the Book of Tubal Cain
       Am                   Am
    A long black coat will show no stain
 E7                        Am
    Feel the heat and the burn on your back
        E7                      Am
    The rip and the moan, The stretch of the rack
   E7                        Am
    All my belongings in a flour sack
              E7                E7
    Will the place I come from take me back

            Am                                    Am                  E7
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
            Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7      Am
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond

             Am                            Am
    They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
        Am                         Am
    To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig
     Dm                                   Dm
    Treats you like a puppet when you're under it's spell
            Am                        Am
    Oh the heart is Heaven,  But the mind is Hell
     E7                     Am
    Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
         E7                       Am
    I's born at this time for a reason you see
     E7                    Am
    When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time
             E7                   E7
    But the wines so pleasing and so sublime

            Am                                    Am                  E7
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
            Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7      Am
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond

      Am                           Am
    Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
      Am                          Am
    Everything I done is between God and me
     Dm                        Dm
    Only he will judge how my time was spent
       Am                           Am
    Twentynine days of sinning and forty to repent
 E7                              Am
    The horse is steady but the horse is blind
      E7                            Am
    Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
 E7                                 Am
    The roots grow upward and the branches grow down
          E7                        E7
    It's much too late to throw the dice again I've found

            Am                                     Am                   E7
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
            Am                               E7      Am
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond

               Am                       Am
    I'm gonna wash them,     I'm gonna wash them
               Am                   Am
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father
               Am                  E7
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother
               Am                   Am
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my brother
              Am         Am                 Am         Am
    Till the water runs clear,    Till the water runs clear
              Am         Am                 Am         Am
    Till the water runs clear,    Till the water runs clear
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