Chris Knight – Broken Plow (Ukulele)
Capo 5
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Am Load up the old Dodge truck Fmaj7 We’ll leave what we can’t sell Am Nobody needs a sharecropper’s tools Fmaj7 or a dust filled well Am Take you one last look around Fmaj7 shed you one last tear Am For the broken plow, the broken dreams Fmaj7 Am And the life we’re leaving here
Pull the lines down tight
The kids can ride on top of the load
In the cool of the night
They can crawl underneath the tarp
To stay out of the cold
Eleven hundred miles of mountain and sand
We’ll cross ‘em tired and torn
If this beat up truck can carry us
Far enough away from the storm
Chorus:
F C We’re going to California G There’s work there for a man F C Too proud to beg for charity G F Too poor to make a stand G Pray it’s just the land we’re losing C F Not my life’s blood that I leave Am On the handles of that broken plow
That haunts me in my dreams
A man at a roadside station
Don’t like dealing with my kind
He’d beat me out of my last dollar
And never look me in the eye
I heard ‘em call us Okies
Hell I don’t know what that means
But something tells me the promised land
Ain’t as promising as it seems
Chorus
Bridge: F Am
Fmaj7 Am This restless road is full of strangers Fmaj7 Am They ain’t no stranger than I am Fmaj7 Am Hardened faces damn the dust and curse the wind Am That drove us from this life and home Fmaj7 Am We’ll never know again
Chorus
On the handles of my broken plow that haunts me in my dreams