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Rock Salt and Nails

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Tyler Childers

Version
studio
published by
southboy
Tone
A-
A+
Slide
A -> La
Video
Chords
	 
Utah Phillips song
[Intro]
G Cadd9
[Verse]
G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
By the banks of the river, where the willows hang down
G/F# Em7 Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And wild birds they warble, with a low moaning sound
G/F# Em7 Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Way down in the hollow, where the river runs cold
G/F# F C/G G C/G
It was there I first listened, to the lies that you told
[Verse]
G C/G G C/G G C/G G
Now I lie on my back, and I see your sweet face
G/F# Em C G C/G G
The past I remember, time can’t erase
G/F# Em C G C/G G
And the letters you wrote me, they were written in shame
F C/G G C/G
And I know that your conscience, still echoes my name
[Instrumental]
G F C/G G C/G
[Verse]
G C/G G C/G G C/G G C/G G
Now if the ladies were blackbirds, if the ladies were thrushes
G/F# Em C G C/G G
I’d lie there for hours, in the chilly cold marshes
G/F# Em C G C/G G
And if the women were squirrels, with them high bushy tails
F C/G G C/G G
I’d fill up my shotgun, with rock salt and nails
F F C/G G C/G G
I’d fill up my shotgun