Josh Ritter – Stretching Wire (Guitar)

                       Dm
You can see him in the blizzard

                              C
Where night is day and day is night

                        Dm
And every footstep disappears

                        C
Just as soon as he goes by

                       Am
He likes his life this way

                         C
Moving slow from post to post

                            Dm
You might think that he's a ghost

                                  C
But, no-oh-lo-lo, he's stretching wire

                   Dm
He's always moving forwards

                    C
Never turning back around

                   Dm
Always moving in a straight line

                  C
To wherever he is now

            Am
Nothing up above him

                        C
But the buzzards in the sky

                                  Dm
And, in the ground, the girl that loved him

                                 C
So, no-oh-lo-lo, he's stretching wire

                             Dm
He hears the whippers in the willow

                             C
He feeds the rattlesnakes by hand

                         Dm
Tumbleweeds, while he is sleeping

                      C
Roll by quiet as they can

                   Am
He's not afraid of morning

                      C
Or the sorrow that it brings

                               Dm
He'll stretch the wire 'til it sings

                                 C
And lo-oh-lo-lo, he's stretching wire