Tom Waits – Dirt In The Ground (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:59:05 -0600 (CST) Subject: Tom Waits_Dirt in the Ground Tom Waits--Dirt in the Ground (written by T. Waits and Kathleen Brennan) from Bone Machine--1992 Verse 1:
Fm           Db      Fm        
What does it matter, a dream of love

              Db       
Or a dream of lies

      Eb                    Ab         
We're all gonna be the same place 

        C7
When we die

Fm                      Db
Your spirit don't leave knowing

Fm                Db
Your face or your name

        Eb
And the wind through your bones

   Ab       C7
Is all that remains

Fm                  Db   Eb  Fm   
And we're all gonna be... 
(4 times) Fm (sung only) Just dirt in the ground Verse 2:
Fm               Db
The quill from a buzzard

Fm                   Db
The blood writes the word

          Eb            Ab
I want to know am I the sky 

       C7
or the bird

       Fm      Db
'Cause hell is boiling over

Fm            Db
And heaven is full

      Eb
We're chained to the world

    Ab           C7
And we all gotta pull

Fm                  Db  Eb  Fm
And we're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Fm
...Just dirt in the ground
Verse 3:
        Fm         Db
Now the killer was smiling

     Fm             Db 
With nerves made of stone

Eb     
He climbed the stairs

        Ab      C7
And the gallows groaned

        Fm                   Db 
And the people's hearts were pounding

          Fm                   Db
They were throbbing, they were red

      Eb
As he swung out over the crowd

            Ab      C7    
I heard the hangman said

Fm              Db   Eb  Fm    
We're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Fm 
Just dirt in the ground
Verse 4:
    Fm        Db
Now Cain slew Abel

   Fm                Db
He killed him with a stone

    Eb
The sky cracked open

        Ab      C7 
And the thunder groaned

Fm               Db
Along a river of flesh

Fm                  Db
Can these dry bones live?

      Eb
Ask a king or a beggar

        Ab             C7  
And the answer they'll give

Fm                 Db  Eb  Fm
Is we're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Fm
We're all gonna be just
Jeff Henscheid [email protected]