Edwin McCain – White Crosses (Ukulele)

Fadd9 - Gsus2 - C - Cadd9 - Am7/C
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       C                                 Fadd9
Well I packed all of my things into this blanket

   Am7/C                          Gsus2
To call this year to earn coyotes fill

        Dsus4                 Cadd9          Fadd9
Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath

    Am7                           Gsus2              Gsus2
And took my first steps into this corridor of death

       Dsus4                Cadd9 Fadd9
If I’m lucky I will make it to a  drain

     Am7/C               Gsus2
With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain

   Dsus4              Cadd9 Fadd9
Of standing in this boxcar  praying for rain

         Am7                             Gsus2
It’s the only the way we will quench our thirst

                    Fadd9  Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

C              Cadd9       Am7/C
Growing in the California sand

                     Fadd9 Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

           Fadd9             Cadd9 Fadd9       Gsus2    Am7/C
We are the children of poverty     trying to a make a stand

      C                                 Fadd9
If we make it past the border, we will scatter

Am7/C                             Gsus2
Vanish just like smoke in autumn wind

       Dsus4                 Cadd9 Fadd9
I will run until my color will not matter

    Am7                        Gsus2
Hopin’ I can find some work or possibly a friend

          Dsus4                    Cadd9 Fadd9
There are others who have made it here

                                Am7/C                      Gsus2
They will show me how to find a job and a place to lay my head

      Dsus4              Cadd9 Fadd9
And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my children

    Am7                   Gsus2
For there are 5 others in line for my bed

                    Fadd9  Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

C              Cadd9       Am7/C
Growing in the California sand

                     Fadd9 Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

           Fadd9             Cadd9 Fadd9       Gsus2    Am7/C
We are the children of poverty     trying to a make a stand

       C                           Fadd9
I will gladly pick your peaches or clean your hotel rooms

Am7/C                Gsus2
I will do the jobs American won’t do

           D7sus4                         Cadd9 Fadd9
With their cell phones to their heads and $700   dollar shoes

Am7                             Gsus2              Gsus2
I will risk my life ‘cause it’s all I have to lose

        C                      Fadd9
Let the devil in the mountains promise me a ride

Am7                         Gsus2
Found an 18 wheeler and put all of us inside

    Dsus4                    Fadd9
And just outside of victory, 19 of us died

Am7                            Gsus2
None of our bodies hit the floor

          Dsus4                Cadd9 Fadd9
And so my wife she still wonders     when I’m coming home

    Am7                            Gsus2
The riches that I promised her for leaving her alone

            Dsus4                      Cadd9  Fadd9
I said that I would send her all that I could save

      Am7                    Gsus2
But I ended up in California in an unknown grave

                    Fadd9  Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

C              Cadd9       Am7/C
Growing in the California sand

                     Fadd9 Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

           Fadd9             Cadd9 Fadd9      Gsus2    Am7/C
We are the children of poverty     dying to a make a stand

                    Fadd9  Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

C              Cadd9       Am7/C
Growing in the California sand

                     Fadd9 Gsus4
In these gardens of white crosses

           Fadd9             Cadd9 Fadd9      Gsus2    Am7/C
We are the children of poverty     dying to a make a stand