Emmylou Harris – Bang The Drum Slowly (Guitar)

A                   D               A
I meant to ask you how to fix that car

  D                                 A 
I always meant to ask you about the war

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And what you saw across a bridge too far

               E
Did it leave a scar

           A         D                 A
Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel

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Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal

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And still you found the ground beneath your wheels

           E
How did it feel

D                    A
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

   E                      A
To dust be returning from dust we begin

D                         A
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m       D        A      E      A
Above and below me world without end

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I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost

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And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed

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There was still that line that you would never cross

       E
At any cost

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I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed

     D                              A
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve

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And if you ever really were deceived

                E
By the likes of me

D                    A
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

   E                      A
To dust be returning from dust we begin

D                         A
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m       D        A      E      A
Above and below me world without end

E                                 D
Gone now is the day and gone the sun

        A
There is peace tonight all over Arlington

        E                              D
But the songs of my life will still be sung

       A                     E
By the light of the moon you hung

           A       D                A
I meant to ask you how to plow that field

D                                   A
I meant to bring you water from the well

    F#m        D                   A
And be the one beside you when you fell

          E
Could you tell

D                    A
Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

   E                      A
To dust be returning from dust we begin

D                         A
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m       D        A      E      A
Above and below me world without end