Tom: C#m
C#m B A C#m
[Verse 1]
C#m B
I've been going like a quarry slave at night
A E
All busted down and burning for my bed
C#m B
I've been thinking about a woman in a wild Kentucky town
A E
Where the mountains are high near Harlan,
B A B
where the whirlpools twirl on down
A E B
where my secret can be found
E B A
In the dark and bloody ground...
[Verse 2]
C#m
Oh how I missed you
B
Oh how I've cried
A E
I'd like to lay down by my side
B C#m
Love you just once before I die
B A E
And I'd be gentle, and I'd never hurt you
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And God might send a moonbeam
B A E
Lay us down in pleasant dreams
A E B
Whatsoever things are lovely
A E B
Whatsoever things are true
E B C#m B A
Whatsoever things are kind and pure thank you, these things...
C#m B
And God might send down a moonbeam
A
And lay us down in pleasant dreams.
[Instrumental]
E B C#m A E B C#m A
[Verse 3]
E B
Dewy was my best friend, he was tall
C#m A
Stood six foot nine against the wall
E B
We both loved the same girl, but Dewy he went bad
C#m A B
And I guess you could say it made one mad
C#m B
He didn't have to do those awful things to you
A E
Yeah Dewy really made me sick
C#m B
But I guess it takes two heels to click
C#m B E
I took my nine pound hammer, swung it hard and swung it round
C#m B E A
I kicked him in the temple, watched him fall to the ground wooaaahhhh
C#m A E B
My blade found its mark in the dark, and that blood flowed in the sand
A E B
From that tall Kentucky man
C#m B
Oh hell hath no fury like the blues
A B
When a man's got on his killing shoes
C# B A B
In the dark and bloody ground
E B A B
In the dark and bloody ground
C# B A B
In the dark and bloody ground
E A
In the dark and bloody ground
