Proper Fence Chords
Proper Fence by Shakey Graves is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords G, D, C, Bm, Am and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
G D
Just a mile down the road
G C
And a street or two away
G
There's that freckled missus that I
D G
want most every day
G D
Out to the home of her father
G C
I'm gonna drag my sore old feet
G
Tell him she's the woman who can
D G
Wake me from my sleep
Bm
She said kiss me
Am
Lord, I listened, but
Bm C
I haven't gone back since
G D G
Though I curse the mind for building a proper fence
G D
Now I will roll, I will suffer
G C
Curse the soil and curse the stones
G D G
My eyes will be fixed on that girl with the stubborn voice
G D
I've know her for a year
G C
Only seen her seven days
G D G
One week too many to keep men like me away
Bm
She said kiss me
Am
Lord, I listened
Bm C
Though I haven't gone back since
G D G
Though I curse the mind for building a proper fence
G Em
G Em
C
G
G D
So three years after, I found her doorstep
G C
Found her shoes and found her kin
G D G
They told me old grim reaper done gone and turned her in
G D
Pouring liquor on the stone
G C
That marks my lost and gone
G D G
I will whimper, wail, and sing a funeral song