(Intro) C Am C Am (note: the intro lick uses Cadd9, if you're lazy and don't wanna play the riff you can add the ninth after defining the chord) C Am Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet C Am A sweetheart left behind C Am Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas C Am That's where my true love lies (C Am C Am) C Am Look for me when the sun-bright swallow C Am Sings upon the birch bough high C Am But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils C Am All a'chew upon your bones so dry (C Am C Am x2) (Chorus) A Cmaj7 But when the sun breaks A Cmaj7 G To no more bullets in Battle Creek A Cmaj7 Then will you make a grave A F For I will be home then G I will be home then F I will be home then G I will be home then Then (Interlude) C Am C Am (note: in the same style as the intro) C Am When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee C Am Made a seam to hem me in C Am There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless C Am Got my heart right pierced by a pin (C Am C Am) C Am But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas C Am All the bellies and the bones and the bile C Am No, I lingered here with the blankets barren C Am And my own belly big with child (C Am C Am x2) (Chorus) A Cmaj7 But when the sun breaks A Cmaj7 G To no more bullets in Battle Creek A Cmaj7 Then will you make a grave A F For I will be home then G I will be home then F I will be home then G I will be home then (Bridge) F G Stems and bones and stone walls too G Could keep me from you F Em Skein of skin is all too few G To keep me from you (C Am C Am) (note: in the same style as the intro) C Am But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted C Am Though our skin may not touch skin C Am Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow C Am I will come on the breath of the wind C Am C Am x2
