Tom: Dm
A# C D# F A# C C A# C D# F A# C C
I hope I find a noble death and avoid an angry trigger
A# C D# F A# C C C A# C
I guess I'll find my ripe old self or at least that's what I figure
A# C D# F A# C C A# C D# F
The sour breath of a disappointed girl daring the man who could
A # C C
keep her
A# C D# F A# C C A# C
She was born by the name of Lynn but she went by Honey Creeper.
Chorus:
C F
The bones of an old life call
D# A# C
They tear at the threads of my innards
F
Somewhere something went wrong
D# A# C
Now I'm living with ghosts and with sinners
Progression Same As Verse 1:
It must have been 1929 when I took my turn to hold her
I felt a longing that I couldn't quit express and by fault I never told her
Chorus:
C F
The bones of an old life call
D# A# C
They tear at the threads of my innards
F
Somewhere something went wrong
D# A# C
Now I'm living with ghosts and with sinners
Bridge
C F A# C
I'm an old man that's what I am like and old stump in the ground
C F A# C
You can't find a man who doesn't want to be found
C F A# C
I'm an old man that's what I am that's what I've come to know
C F A# C
I became a shadow when I let that woman go.
