Iron & Wine – Carousel (Guitar)

C  C/B  Am
Almost home

       G                   Em
When I missed the bottom stair

           G                 Em
You were braiding your gray hair

        C  C/B   Am
It had grown so long

      G          Em
Since I'd been gone

        C   C/B  Am  
And the perfect girls

        G                  Em
By the pool, they would protest

      G                 Em
The cross around their necks

         C      C/B    Am
But our sons were overseas

G                          Em                 C     C/B    Am
And we all know about the hive and the honey bees

C   C/B  Am
Almost home

          G                 Em
With an olive branch and a dove

           G                   Em
You were beating on a Persian rug

            C            C/B      Am
With your bible and your wedding band

       G             Em
Both hidden on a TV stand

          C    C/B    Am
And the cruel wind blew

        G          Em
Every city father fell

           G        Em
Off the county carousel

            C      C/B     Am
While the dogs were eating snow

          G                  Em               C     C/B     Am
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes

C  C/B   Am
Almost home

        G                Em
We got lost on our new street

              G                 Em  
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep

         C     C/B     Am
So the dogs all went unfed

           G                 Em
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed

         C    C/B      Am
And the cops couldn't care

             G               Em
When that crackhead built a boat

             G               Em
And said, "Please, before I go

         C     C/B    Am
May our only honored bone

          G            Em                  C        C/B       Am
Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"