Gillian Welch – The Way The Whole Thing Ends (Guitar)

Capo 1
Key
-
Versions (2)

Auto-scroll

Chords

As recorded by Gillian Welch (From the 2011 Album THE HARROW & THE HARVEST) [Intro] G [Verse 1]
G
Say you wanna see my garden

G
And you wanna make it shine

G
Say you wanna see my blue jeans

G
Hanging on your old clothesline
[Chorus 1]
C                         D    
Standing in the back door crying

G                   C
Now you wanna be my friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              G
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Verse 2]
G
Now what's a little baby doing

G
Dressing up in banker's clothes?

G
What's a little sweetheart like you

G
Doing with a bloody nose?
[Chorus 2]
C                        D
Standing in the backdoor crying

G                       C
Now you're gonna need a friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              G
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Verse 3]
G
Now once you had a hook and ladder

G
Up into the headless night

G
Once you had a motorcycle

G
But you couldn't ride it right
[Chorus 2]
C                        D
Standing in the backdoor crying

G                       C
Now you're gonna need a friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              G
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Verse 4]
G
Now someone said something one time

G
But Daddy didn't talk too loud

G
People ought to stick together

G
That's the way to make a crowd
[Chorus 3]
    C                        D
But here you come, alone and crying

G                   C
Now you wanna be my friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              C
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Verse 5]
G
Mama's in the beauty parlor

G
And Daddy's in the baseball pool

G
Sister's in the drive-in movie

G
Brother's in the old high school
[Chorus 4]
    C                        D
Now here you come, alone and crying

G                           C
Once, you know, you were my friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              G
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Chorus 1]
C                         D    
Standing in the back door crying

G                   C
Now you wanna be my friend

E7                           Am
That's the way the cornbread crumbles

D                              G
That's the way the whole thing ends
[Outro] G C D G C E7 D G