Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer (Ukulele)

       C#m                          G#m
It was just a little while past the sunset strip

     E                B          F#
They found the girl’s body in an open pit

    C#m                          G#m
Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still wide

E                  B          F#
Gazing through the fog to the other side

     C#m                              G#m
They booked me on a whim and threw me deep in jail

        E             B           F#
With no bail, sitting silent on a rusty pail

     C#m                        G#m
Just gazing at the marks on the opposite wall

  E             B           F#
Remembering the music of my lover’s call

       C#m                         G#m
So you make no mistake I know just what it takes

          E          B         F#
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates

          C#m                            G#m
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin

         E              B           F#
But they say it’s never too late to start again

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E             B              F#
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E           B          F#
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

       C#m                       G#m
It was dark as the grave, it was just about three

         E               B           F#
When the warden with his key came to set me free

     C#m                        G#m
They gave me five dollars and a secondhand suit

  E            B         F#
A pistol and a hat and a worn out flute

     C#m                    G#m
So I took a bus down to the Rio Grande

      E          B           F#
And I shot a man down on the edge of town

       C#m                    G#m
Then I stole me a horse and I rode it around

        E                 B         F#
Til the sheriff pulled me in and he sat me down

             C#m                          G#m
He said, you make no mistake, I know just what it takes

          E          B         F#
To pull a man’s soul back from heaven’s gates

          C#m                            G#m
I’ve been wandering in the dark about as long as sin

         E              B           F#
But they say it’s never too late to start again

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E             B              F#
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E           B          F#
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

         C#m                      G#m
Well the sheriff let me go with a knife and a song

     E              B           F#
So I took the first train up to Oregon

      C#m                         G#m
And I killed the first man that I came upon

            E           B                  F#
Because the devil works quick, you know it don’t take long

       C#m                       G#m
Then I went to the river ford to take a swim

              E           B           F#
You know that black river water is as black as sin

      C#m                      G#m
And I washed myself clean as a newborn babe

           E           B           F#
And then I picked up a rock for to sharpen my blade

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E             B              F#
Will the spirit come a calling for my soul to send?

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E           B          F#
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

          E           B             F#
Will that black river water wash me clean again?

   C#m      G#m
Oh when, oh when

         E           B          F#
Will the keys to the kingdom be mine again?