Rock Salt And Nails Chords

KeyG CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays448

Rock Salt And Nails by Buddy Miller is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Em and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G                         C                      G                    
On the banks of the river where the willow hang down 
                         Em      C                 G 
Where the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound 
            Em     C                    G 
Down in the hollow where the water runs cold 
                     F        C                    G 
It was there I first listened to the lies that you told 
                    C                    G 
Now I lie on my bed and I see your sweet face 
               Em       C           G  
And the past I remember time cannot erase 
               Em       C                 G 
The letter you wrote me it was written in shame 
                     F          C              G 
And I know that your conscience still echos my name 
G                              C                G 
Now the nights are so lonely   lord sorrow runs deep 
           Em         C               G 
Nothing is worse than a night without sleep 
           Em    C              G 
I walk out alone and look at the sky 
             F    C                G 
Too empty to sing too loneseome to cry 
                                  C                   G 
Now if the ladies were blackbirds if the ladies were thrushes 
                  Em    C                  G 
I'd lie there for hours in the chilly cold marshes 
                    Em        C                    G 
If the ladies were squirrels  with them high bushy tails 
                F       C                 G 
I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails 
                F       C                 G 
I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails 
 
 
 
>From Buddy & Julie Miller 
Hightone Records 2001   
Scruggs Music(BMI) 
 
Donald Lindley    drums 
Larry Campbell    fiddle 
Phil Madeira      organ 
Buddy             guitar/vocals/bass 
Julie             vocals 
 
http://www.buddyandjulie.com/ 
    	

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