Robert Earl Keen – The Bluegrass Widow (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
G
It's been five years come this autumn, She remembers well the day 

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The day the fever got him and took him far a way

G
Far away from always knowin' that the love they shared was true

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Far a way the fiddlers bowin' "Grass River Blues"

G
It was in the dead of winter when her man first caught the chill

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It was said he heard the angels singin' " Cabin On the Hill"

G
Through the springtime he was groanin' "maybe time to pass and go"

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By the summer she was moanin' Good Old Lover please come home
[Chorus]
        C                                 G
Now she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow

    C                                  G
She prays to Carter Stanley, won't you please tell Bill Monroe

           C                              G
I'd rather be in some dark hollow or some dark, deep shady grove

        F                     C      G
Than to be a Bluegrass widow, oh, oh oh
[Verse 2]
          G
Will you miss me when I'm gone were his final words to her

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Darlin' think of what you've done then replied his Knoxville girl

G
And the leaves had started turnin when his mind began to fail

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Then he broke down in a breakdown now she wears a Long Black Veil
[Chorus]
        C                                 G
Now she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow

    C                                  G
She prays to Carter Stanley, won't you please tell Bill Monroe

           C                              G
I'd rather be in some dark hollow or some dark, deep shady grove

        F                     C      G
Than to be a Bluegrass widow, oh, oh oh
[Chorus]
        C                                 G
Now she stands out in the midnight in the moonlight all aglow

    C                                  G
She prays to Carter Stanley, won't you please tell Bill Monroe

           C                              G
I'd rather be in some dark hollow or some dark, deep shady grove

        F                     C      G
Than to be a Bluegrass widow, oh, oh oh