Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer (Guitar)

       Am                           Em
It was just a little while past the sunset strip

     C                G           D
They found the girl’s body in an open pit

    Am                           Em
Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide

C                  G          D
Gazing through the fog to the other side

     Am                               Em
They booked me on a whim and threw me deep in jail

     C                G           D
With no bail, sitting silent on a rusty pail

     Am                         Em
Just gazing at the marks on the opposite wall

  C             G           D
Remembering the music of my lover’s call

       Am                           Em
So you make no mistake I know just what it takes

          C          G         D
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates

          Am                             Em
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin

         C              G           D
But they say it’s never too late to start again

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C             G              D
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C           G          D
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

       Am                        Em
It was dark as the grave, it was just about three

         C               G           D
When the warden with his key came to set me free

     Am                         Em
They gave me five dollars and a secondhand suit

  C            G         D
A pistol and a hat and a worn out flute

     Am                     Em
So I took a bus down to the Rio Grande

      C          G           D
And I shot a man down on the edge of town

       Am                     Em
Then I stole me a horse and I rode it around

         C                 G         D
'Til the sheriff pulled me in and he sat me down

       Am                           Em
So you make no mistake I know just what it takes

          C          G         D
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates

          Am                             Em
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin

         C              G           D
But they say it’s never too late to start again

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C             G              D
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C           G          D
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

         Am             Em
Well the sheriff let me go with a knife and a song

     C                G           D
So I took the first train up to Oregon

      Am               Em
And I killed the first man that I came upon

     C                G           D
Because the devil works quick, you know it don’t take long

       Am          Em
Then I went to the river ford to take a swim

              C           G           D
You know that black river water is as black as sin

      Am            Em
And I washed myself clean as a newborn babe

     C                G           D
And then I picked up a rock for to sharpen my blade

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C             G              D
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C           G          D
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

          C           G             D
Will that black river water wash me clean again?

   Am       Em
Oh when, oh when

         C           G          D
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?