Tab by Devin Miller Tuning: Standard EADGBe **CAPO 7th FRET** A5 D5 I had a lover, name was Grace D5 D5 She found me down in a lonely place A5 D5 She dug me out with an old jar bow D5 D5 She dressed me up for to take me home A5 D5 She fed me words that I could not taste D5 D5 For I had no tongue, it had been replaced A5 D5 By a green and a-growin' flower which grew D5 D5 A5 And I knew if I ever spoke I would speak true --- D5 D5 D5 --- A5 D5 We lived together in an old hotel D5 D5 Broke-down palace with a wishing well A5 D5 The neighbour girl taught me how to spell D5 D5 And how to steal what I could not sell A5 D5 But I fed my tongue on the devil's rum D5 D5 And a roadhouse run by a godless bum A5 D5 On a drunken night with a stolen gun D5 D5 I shot my lover as she made to run E5 A5 The judge said "Son, what have you done?" E5 A5 But I didn't speak a word, no I didn't speak one C5 G5 D5 And the judge sent me away C5 G5 D5 A5 And they buried my Grace, yeah, the very next day --- D5 D5 D5 --- REST OF THE LYRICS: They sent me out on a midnight train In the rain rollin' down through the dusty plain 4 men sittin' with an old shotgun silver stars pinned on everyone They busted my mouth for to get at my tongue To see just how this had all begun So I opened my mouth like a dragon's breath I only spoke truth, but it only brought death And I laid those boys to rest For the truth in truth is a terrible jest For there ain't no road but the road to home There ain't no crops but the one's you've sown And if you learn one thing from me You better guard your tongue like your enemy I came to ground in a one horse town On the western rim where the sun go down Where a branded man might start again For to ride his rung, for to lose his sin But my tongue kept growing, it would not cease I grew quite weary, couldn't get no release So I went to the magistrate and turned myself in Picked up a shovel and he made the grin And they planted me by the sea Now the birds of the air make nests on me
