The Carter Family – Grave On The Green Hillside (Guitar)

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There’s a little grave on the green hillside that lies to the morning sun

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And the way worn feet often wander there when the cares of the day are done

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We sometimes sit in the twilight fall and talk of a far off land

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And we sometimes feel in the twilight there the touch of a vanished hand

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Grave on the green hillside grave on the green hillside

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In the years to come we will calmly sleep in a grave on the green hillside

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And this land is full of these little graves in the valleys plains and hills

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There’s an angel too for each little grave an angel procession fills

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I know not how but I sometimes think that they lead us with gentle hand

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And a whisper falls on a willing ear from the shore of a far off land

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Grave on the green hillside grave on the green hillside

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In the years to come we will calmly sleep in a grave on the green hillside

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And these little graves are but wayside marks that point to a far off land

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And they speak to the soul of a better day of a day that’s near at hand

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Though we first must walk through the chartless fields yet Christ will be our guide

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We will reach the shore of a far off land through a grave on a green hillside

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Grave on the green hillside grave on the green hillside

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In the years to come we will calmly sleep in a grave on the green hillside