C 
In our days we will live 
         Em 
Like our ghosts will live 
         F                      C 
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows 
            G 
And folding clothes

              C 
Like stubborn boys across the road 
           Em 
We'll keep everything 
          F                      C 
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw 
              G 
That took her dog

            C 
When sister Laurie says, "Amen"  
              Em 
We won't hear anything 
            F                     C 
The ten-car trains will take that word 
               G 
That fledgling bird

               C 
And the fallen house across the way 
           Em 
It'll keep everything 
           F                   C 
The baby's breath. Our bravery wasted  
        G 
and our shame

          F                               C 
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire 
         F                              G 
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire 
        F                         C 
All the more a pair of underwater pearls 
         F                             G 
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern

       C 
In our days we will say 
         Em 
What our ghosts will say 
            F                 C 
We gave the world what it saw fit 
              G 
And what'd we get?

              C 
Like stubborn boys with big green eyes 
          Em 
We'll see everything 
              F                   C 
In the tender shade of the autumn leaves 
                  G 
And the buzzard's wing

           F                               C 
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire 
         F                              G 
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire 
        F                         C 
All the more a pair of underwater pearls 
         F                             G 
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern