Iron & Wine – The Devil Never Sleeps (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro] F [Verse 1]
F
Dreamin' again of a train track endin' at the edge of the sea
(Big black cloud was low and rollin' our way)
F
Dog at the barbed wire barkin' at my buzz cut friends and me
(Sound of a switchblade shinin' in the summer rain) [Chorus]
Eb                         Bb                       F
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone (ooh)

Eb                          Bb                   F
Everybody bitchin', there's nothin' on the radio
[Verse 2]
F
Dreamin' again of a city full of fathers in their army clothes
(Chatterin' boys and a chicken at the choppin' block)
F
All of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go
(Didn't find a friend but, boy, I really bought a lot) [Chorus]
Eb                           Bb                      F
Someone bet a dollar that my daddy wasn't coming home (ooh)

Eb                          Bb                   F
Everybody bitchin', there's nothin' on the radio
[Instrumental] F Eb Bb F Eb Bb F [Verse 3]
F
Dreamin' again that it's freezin' and my mother's in her flowerbed
(Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds)
F
Changin' her face like a shadow on the gravel, this is what she said
(Blood on my chin still chewin' on a red rose) [Chorus]
Eb                           Bb                  F
No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone (ooh)

Eb                          Bb                   F
Everybody bitchin', there's nothin' on the radio
[Outro] F