Misc Originals – Bruce E Ring - Caney Ridge (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
 G                           C    G                         A    D
They carried my daddy up to caney ridge, we stood shivering all around

  G                           C           G                        D         G
They folded the flag and they played the taps and laid him in that cold cold ground.
[Chorus]
G                    C      G                A    D        G                   C      G
I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back someday, I'm going back up to caney ridge

                 D      G
back to where my daddy lays.
[Verse 2]
G                    C                  G                       A       D
Daddy made a living digging clinchfield coal, he traded at the company store,

G                      C           G                          D         G
seven of us lived in a three room shack,the coal train ran by our front door.
[Chorus]
G                    C     G                A     D        G                   C     G
I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back someday, I'm going back up to caney ridge 

                 D     G
back to where my daddy lay.
[Verse 3]
G                      C           G                A               G
I never had to dig any clinchfield coal, their was nothing there for me.

G                              C      G                 D     G
The old folks have all gone to caney ridge, nothing left but memories.
[Chorus]
G                    C      G                A       D
I'm going back up to caney ridge, I'm going back some day.

G                    C     G                         D           G
I'm going back up to caney ridge, and caney ridge is where I'll stay,

G                  D         G
and caney ridge is where I'll stay.