Miller's Cave Chords
by Bobby Bare
Miller's Cave by Bobby Bare is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G, F and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
INTRO: PLAY INSTRUMENTALLY
(C) God help the man who gets (G) lost in Miller's (C) Cave.
VERSE ONE / VOCALS
(C) Way down in...(G)...the state of (C) Georgia
Among the (G) swamps...and ever (C) glades
There's a big old (F) hole...in Tiger (C) Mountain (Am)
God help the (C) man who gets (G) lost in Miller's (C) Cave.
VERSE TWO
(C) I had me a girl...(G)...in Waycross,(C) Georgia
but she (G) had...unfaithful (C) ways.
She made me (F) feel...I was un (C) wanted (Am)
Like the (C) bats and the (G) bears in Miller's (C) Cave.
VERSE THREE
(C) I caught her out...(G)...one Sunday (C) morning.
With some (G) guy...they call Big (C) Dave
The meanest (F) man...in Waycross,(C) Georgia (Am)
I'd rather (C) fight a mountain (G) lion in Miller's (C) Cave.
SPOKEN VERSE
(C) So I said you're gonna pay,.(G)..both you and (C) Dave
Cause I?m gonna (G) see you in your (C) grave
They laughed at (F) me...and then I (C) shot 'em (Am)
I dragged their (C) cheatin', schemin' (G)bones...to Miller's (C) Cave.
VERSE FOUR
(C) I couldn?t stand...(G)...the way she (C) did me
Well I guess I (G) showed....her I was (C) brave
Most wanted (F) man...in the state of (C) Georgia (Am)
They'll never (C) find me 'cause I'm (G) lost...(stop)...in Miller's (C) Cave.
Note; some recordings go up 1/2 step at verse three...but for this chording
we optioned to do a straight ?C? edition